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The Colts are looking for a quarterback again. Philip Rivers has retired, and Jacoby Brissett is a free agent.
The team will have its fifth start day in 2021 in five years in 2021.
Andrew Luck’s surprise exit before the 2019 season has given them a one-year starter in Brissett and then Rivers for the past two seasons. Would Luck, who is only 31 years old, consider retiring?
The Colts should at least inquire.
“It stands as it stands: Andrew is retired,” Colts owner Jim Irsay said on Wednesday via Mike Chappell of FOX 59.
But the Colts would welcome Luck back with open arms if he decided to return.
“He knows we would love to have him again,” Irsay said. “But only he can answer the question deep in his heart and soul: ‘Hey, do I really want to come back and be a quarterback for the Colts in the NFL again? “It’s easy for us. He knows how much we want him to be our quarterback.
“I do not really know if we will see it. I think he’s happy. He is raising his daughter. He has a wonderful family. He’s a good Colt. He knows he can come back whenever he wants, but at the same time we respect that he made the decision. ‘
Irsay sounds like the Colts, with a roster now ready to win, would prefer a veteran. That could mean Matthew Stafford, for whom the Lions are going to trade this off-season.
Stafford has played 12 years, but is only 32 and will turn 33 next month, so he could be a team’s short- and long-term answer to the post.
“We believe we are close,” Irsay said. ‘We have a huge player body that could compete for the Super Bowl soon. Ideally, if you can find someone who is ready this year, and a few years later, it will give you the best opportunity, and you do not have to have as much as a ripening aspect to see them develop and at that level. do not come. that they have to get to the Super Bowl and win it.
‘We’ll just have to see where the opportunity pushes us. We want to get a good, young quarterback, and obviously there are some who are talking about it. ‘