The Indianapolis Colts are planning to bring 44-year old Philip Rivers in for a workout as QB search takes a wild turn

According to reports, the Indianapolis Colts are bringing in 44-year old Philip Rivers for a workout. As crazy as that sounds in 2025, I assure you, this is real life and not satire, or a fake Adam Schefter account missing a vowel… they are actually doing it.

With Daniel Jones out for the year and Riley Leonard week to week, the Colts are apparently dipping into the emergency quarterback vault and calling a man who last threw an NFL pass in 2021.

Philip Rivers spent the last four years coaching high school football and adding to a family large enough to populate its own expansion franchise, and somehow he is now back on an NFL workout list.

Colts are “planning to bring” Philip Rivers in for a workout

🚨 Colts are "planning to bring" Philip Rivers into their facility Tuesday to work out and see if he may join their practice squad, per @RapSheet and @MikeGarafolo

Rivers is 44 years old and retired initially in 2021 pic.twitter.com/qCQuqUnpkp

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 9, 2025

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The funniest part about all of this is the predictable chorus that erupts every time a quarterback older than the internet gets a phone call: “SIGN KAEPERNICK!”

It’s a tradition at this point, but something about pairing it with the idea of 44-year-old Philip Rivers makes it even more absurd. Maybe the Colts are floating this just to let the world know they’re shopping. Maybe it’s a signal to agents everywhere that the quarterback search is open for business. Maybe they’re just trying to keep fans awake through the final stretch of the season.

I have no idea, but I absolutely love it.

I went from laughing, to rereading, to convincing myself this is exactly what the Colts should do. Why not? Tom Brady played at 45.

Philip Rivers already knows the building, knows the system, and his arm is probably as fresh as it’s been in a decade after throwing only to high schoolers.

He’s smarter than any quarterback wandering the free agent market, and honestly, what else are Colts fans supposed to rally around at this point?

They’re not luring Jameis away from New York. No one wants to go back to the Joe Flacco experience. Philip Rivers would at least make the final weeks against Seattle, San Francisco, Jacksonville, and Houston worth watching.

Will it happen? Who knows. Should it happen? Probably not. Do I desperately want it anyway? Absolutely.

Nothing would be funnier or more on-brand than the Colts handing the keys to a 44-year-old father of twelve and saying, “Let’s see what happens.”

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