Colts QB Anthony Richardson is day-to-day after injuring finger, AP source says

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Colts QB Anthony Richardson is day-to-day after injuring finger, AP source says

2025-08-09 07:56 Last Updated At：08:00

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson is considered day-to-day with a dislocated pinkie, a person with knowledge of the injury told The Associated Press on Friday.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team hadn’t yet made an official statement.

It’s unclear when Richardson will practice next. Indy did not hold practice Friday and is scheduled to do so Saturday in Westfield, Indiana, a suburb on Indianapolis' northwest side.

In other injury news, the Colts closed the day by making a series of moves, including placing running back Salvon Ahmed and cornerback Justin Walley on the season-ending injured reserve list.

Ahmed was carted off the field after hurting his right leg in practice on Sunday. Walley, a rookie third-round pick out of Minnesota, tore a knee ligament in a 24-16 loss to Baltimore on Thursday night.

Richardson was injured on the second possession in the loss to Baltimore. He was driven into the ground by unblocked Baltimore Ravens linebacker David Ojabo. When Richardson got up, he saw his finger at an awkward angle and immediately left the game. He did not return.

Coach Shane Steichen said the finger popped out of place and trainers popped it back in.

"I just looked down and I see my finger, different direction, and I’m like, ‘Maybe I’m tripping,’” Richardson said. “I looked at it again, and it was definitely like that.”

Richardson attempted to grip the ball on the sideline but said it didn't quite feel right.

That meant Daniel Jones, who is battling Richardson for Indy's starting job, got more action than expected. Steichen said after the game that he would consider changing his script for next Saturday's game against Green Bay. Jones was expected to start that game, likely taking more snaps than Richardson.

Richardson, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2022 NFL draft, has battled a series of injuries through his first two seasons. He's played in just 16 of 34 games, missing all but two because of injury. Richardson also has been unable to finish several additional games.

The stops and starts have hindered Richardson's development. He completed 47.7% of his throws last season, the lowest percentage among regular starters.

Jones signed a one-year, $14 million contract during the offseason. He was added to compete with Richardson after spending his first six seasons with the New York Giants. He was released during last season and signed with the Minnesota Vikings but did not take an official snap.

The Colts also designated linebacker Liam Anderson as waived-injured, and released cornerback Tre Herndon, an eighth-year player who signed with Indianapolis on July 31.

The team restocked its roster by signing cornerback B.J. Mayes, running backs Nate Noel and and Nay'Quan Wright and tackle Marcellus Johnson.

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Protesting Greek farmers swarm onto airport tarmac in Crete, forcing halt to flights

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Angry farmers protesting delays in the payment of subsidies swarmed onto the aircraft parking area of the international airport on the southern Greek island of Crete on Monday, managing to evade riot police who used tear gas and stun grenades to keep them back.

Images from local media showed dozens of farmers standing on a section of the tarmac at the Nikos Kazantzakis international airport in Heraklion, the main town in Crete, forcing the airport to suspend all flights.

Clashes also broke out near the airport of Crete’s second-largest city, Chania, with riot police using tear gas to disperse protesting farmers who pelted them with rocks and overturned a police patrol car, local media reported. Two people were reportedly injured in Chania.

The clashes in Crete are the latest escalation in farmer protests over delays in the payment of European Union-backed agricultural subsidies in the wake of a scandal which revealed fraudulent subsidy claims.

Farmers have deployed thousands of tractors and other agricultural vehicles at border crossings and key points along highways across the country, periodically stopping traffic and threatening to completely blockade roads, as well as ports and airports.

On Friday, riot police fired tear gas at protesting farmers attempting to block the main access road to the international airport outside the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.

Police have been enforcing traffic diversions in several parts of northern and central Greece to skirt the blockades, while farmer roadblocks at the country’s northern borders with Bulgaria, Turkey and North Macedonia have already hampered truck traffic, causing long backup lines of freight vehicles.

The payment delays have come as authorities review all requests following revelations of widespread fraudulent claims for EU farm subsidies. Protesters have argued that the delays amount to collective punishment, leaving honest farmers in debt and unable to plant their fields for next season. Greece’s farming sector has also been hit this year by an outbreak of goat and sheep pox that led to a mass cull of livestock.

Michalis Chrisochoidis, the minister for public order, said last week that the government remained open to talks with protest leaders, but warned that it wouldn’t tolerate the shutdown of major transit points.

Protests by farmers are common in Greece, and similar blockades in the past have sometimes severed all road traffic between the north and south of the country for weeks.

The subsidy scandal prompted the resignation of five senior government officials in June, and the phased shutdown of a state agency that handled agricultural subsidies. Dozens of people have been arrested for allegedly filing false claims, in response to an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.

The independent EU body dealing with financial crime said at the end of October that the investigation was linked to “a systematic large-scale subsidy fraud scheme and money-laundering activities.”