Sources: Richardson likely out multiple games

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis Colts backmost Anthony Richardson Sr. is apt to miss aggregate games aft suffering an orbital fracture successful a freak pregame incidental connected Sunday, according to aggregate sources.

Richardson, the superior backup to starter Daniel Jones, was hospitalized aft a rod that helium had affixed an elastic agelong set to snapped during his pregame routine, resulting successful the rod forcefully impacting his face.

It near Richardson severely injured, a root told ESPN. The swelling is truthful important that Richardson's imaginativeness is temporarily impaired, though determination is not believed to beryllium immoderate harm to his eye.

The bands are utilized by each of the Colts quarterbacks successful the aforesaid mode earlier each practices and games. When utilized connected the field, the bands are often tied to the extremity posts. But Sunday's incidental occurred successful the locker room, wherever the stretching regular sometimes takes place.

One root described the incidental arsenic "just a freak accident."

Meanwhile, the Colts are deliberating connected however to proceed astatine backmost successful Richardson's absence. Rookie Riley Leonard, a sixth-round prime from Notre Dame, is the lone remaining backmost connected the roster.

The Colts, according to a source, volition see signing a seasoned to backmost up Jones depending connected Richardson's timeline. But fixed the dearth of options successful escaped agency, Leonard is nether information for the job, the root said.

The Colts, who pb the NFL successful scoring astatine 32.3 points per game, question to Los Angeles for a Week 7 matchup with the Chargers connected Sunday.