Report: Colts QB Anthony Richardson to work out with reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen this offseason

Based on NFL Community’s Cameron Wolfe, Indianapolis Colts soon-to-be third-year quarterback Anthony Richardson is additional motivated to win the upcoming anticipated beginning quarterback competitors outright—and can even be figuring out with Buffalo Payments’ 2024 NFL MVP quarterback Josh Allen in some unspecified time in the future this offseason:

“But talking with Richardson and his team, they are not surprised by [the expected quarterback competition] nor are they bothered by it,” mentioned Wolfe on Richardson’s offseason and expectation to win the job with gusto. “They’ve been motivated this offseason, going into Year 3 to get after it. He’s been working out since January 20th in Jacksonville with his quarterbacks coaches Will Hewlett, Tom Gormerly, and Chris Hess, the mechanics coach.”

“One thing to watch, he’s also going to work out with Josh Allen I’m told this offseason. Josh Allen went through some mechanical changes early in his career that helped him evolve into the MVP that we just saw.”

It was reported in mid-January that Richardson would work with Hess this offseason.

Allen has beforehand labored with Hess within the current previous, who helped enhance the Payments’ All-Professional’s throwing mechanics, with Hess’s sports activities motion evaluation firm Biometrik. Subsequently, with Richardson additionally using Hess this early offseason, it’s not surprising to see the pair of gifted NFL passers finally join for some exercises this offseason.

It will get much more fascinating although as a result of Richardson, as a dynamic dual-threat passer, has typically been in comparison with a younger Josh Allen, who had to enhance his personal preliminary accuracy deficiencies throwing the soccer—however nonetheless possessed the elite athletic capacity and upside to obviously nonetheless dream upon.

The truth is, regardless of Richardson’s shocking two-game benching close to midseason for the notorious ‘tap-out,’ Allen got here to the younger quarterback’s support—nonetheless providing excessive reward publicly for the previous Colts’ 2023 4th general decide’s immense potential (by way of ThePatMcAfee Present):

Now the extremely athletic pairing will get to see one another up shut, and if all goes properly and in keeping with plan, maybe Richardson can be taught a factor or two from the NFL’s reigning MVP by selecting his mind a bit and higher understanding the Payments celebrity’s exercise/apply habits.