{"id":444097,"date":"2023-07-24T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=444097"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:48:49","slug":"anthony-richardson-agrees-to-4-year-contract-with-the-colts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anthony-richardson-agrees-to-4-year-contract-with-the-colts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Richardson agrees to 4-year contract with the Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Richardson has agreed personal terms with the Indianapolis Colts to a 4-year contract worth $34m fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Colts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Colts<\/a> and No. 4 overall pick QB Anthony Richardson have agreed to terms on his 4-year, $33.99M fully guaranteed deal that includes a $21.72M signing bonus paid 100% upfront, per me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a>. Deal done by agent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djackson_legacy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@djackson_legacy<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CihRdM3YQO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CihRdM3YQO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1683541469569892352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Richardson was one of the few remaining first-round picks, who weren&#8217;t signed and now his moment seems to have come.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4, 232-pound Richardson posted the fastest 40-yard dash time (4.43 seconds) along with the best vertical jump (40 1\/2 inches) and broad jump (10 feet, 9 inches) of the 15 quarterbacks at the NFL combine.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts had no hesitation in signing the quarterback and with his help they firmly believe they can become a playoff contender.<\/p>\n<p>The Indianapolis team will also hope the 21-year-old will stay long-term and solve their issues at that position. The Colts haven&#8217;t been able to find a strong replacement for Andrew Luck, who surprisingly retired back in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Richardson has agreed personal terms with the Indianapolis Colts to a 4-year contract worth $34m fully guaranteed. The #Colts and No. 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":444098,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19067,17242],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[19069,19068],"acf":{"announce":"The quarterback looks set to join the Indianapolis team","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444097"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=444097"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=444097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}