Nick Foles

Nick Foles will start for the Colts on Monday night against the Los Angeles Chargers, interim head coach Jeff Saturday announced on Wednesday.

The Colts' offensive playbook won't change in going from Ryan to Foles – it's hard to make significant changes to a playbook during a season, let alone in Week 16 – but Saturday's expectation is this quarterback swap can spark the offense to push the ball downfield more and have better execution in the red zone. It's sort of a crash course because sometimes you're with a team for a couple years and then you go in and out, and then you play. For me, it's just sort of rolling with the punches each week and being the best teammate I can for the QB room." He won MVP of Super Bowl LII about two months after tagging in as the Philadelphia Eagles' starting quarterback following a season-ending injury to Carson Wentz; more recently, he went from being the Chicago Bears' third-string quarterback to starting in Week 16 last year and leading the Bears to a 25-24 win over the Seattle Seahawks. Feel bad for Matt, but ultimately I feel Nick gives us the best chance to win and that's the direction we're heading." Those were all cited by Saturday as reasons for making the change from Ryan to Foles, with the goal to find a winning formula for 2022's final three games.

Nick Foles will start for the Colts against the Chargers on Monday night as coach Jeff Saturday has benched Matt Ryan after the team's collapse vs. the ...

The quarterback change is just the latest twist for a team that has endured constant change this season. Instead, he's been at the helm of one of the league's worst offenses and leads the NFL in interceptions (13). "And when you want to be performing at a level and it's not getting there, it's devastating for players. The Colts then reinstated Ryan as the starter in Saturday's first game, against the [Las Vegas Raiders](/nfl/team/_/name/lv/las-vegas-raiders) in Week 10, before ultimately moving away from him again this week. Now, he'll make his first start for the team on Monday night. The Colts deployed Ryan for the first seven weeks before benching him for 2021 sixth-round pick

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Kravitz: The Colts are turning to Nick Foles? Now? Someone, please, make it make sense. Sep 11, 2022; Houston, Texas, USA; Indianapolis ...

I think it was his call to bring back Ryan, and I think it was his decision to bench Ryan a second time. We’ve always known him to be a sounding board and to be involved in the process, but mandates on personnel? [Carson Wentz](https://theathletic.com/nfl/player/carson-wentz-znOb6BnXeLfSyHa7/), and it was Irsay’s decision to bench Ryan and play Ehlinger, so who knows what else he’s had his hands on this season? You’re reading it because you’re wondering what the heck is going on with the Colts. Then again, if you gave me millions of dollars to help the other quarterbacks and save myself from head trauma, I, too, would do my best to be a great teammate. As expected, Foles has been a good soldier through the various senseless moves up and down the depth chart. “At the end of the day, we have to get teams out of playing their safeties at 7 yards,” Saturday said. Like Ryan, who thought his playing days in Indy this year were done after the first benching, Foles could have checked out. [NFL](https://theathletic.com/nfl/) history, the BIG NEWS is that [Nick Foles](https://theathletic.com/nfl/player/nick-foles-oFXvSYeKIe0IlWUx/) [will be starting in place of Matt Ryan](https://theathletic.com/4024815/2022/12/21/colts-nick-foles-matt-ryan/) this Monday night in the Colts- [Chargers](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/chargers/) game at Lucas Oil Stadium. [after that Denver fiasco](https://theathletic.com/3722741/2022/10/23/colts-titans-matt-ryan-sam-ehlinger/) — why not go to Foles, your $3.1 million backup at that point, when the season was still salvageable? When he was given the keys to the car elsewhere in the league, he struggled. [Matt Ryan](https://theathletic.com/nfl/player/matt-ryan-K1VzBOpV7J1CIsuU/), [Sam Ehlinger](https://theathletic.com/nfl/player/sam-ehlinger-qvhjxsWUZXZvliuQ/), Nick Foles …

The Colts will start Nick Foles at quarterback for their Week 16 Monday night game against the Los Angeles Chargers, interim head coach Jeff Saturday ...

Foles signed with the Colts as a free agent in May. Over those stops, Foles has 14,003 passing yards with 82 touchdowns, 43 interceptions and a passer rating of 87.3; he was named a Pro Bowler in 2013 and earned MVP honors in Super Bowl LII. Saturday said the Colts haven't decided if Ryan or Sam Ehlinger will back up Foles on Monday, and that the team's plan at quarterback will be evaluated on a week-to-week basis to close out the season.

Of course, everything should be taken with a grain of salt considering what we've seen during this nightmarish season. Benching Matt Ryan could provide a spark ...

And please don’t win. Please don’t. Has a statue. Threw 7 TDs in a game. And they’re expected to do so with Foles under center. Of course, everything should be taken with a grain of salt considering what we’ve seen during this nightmarish season.

On Wednesday, the Indianapolis Colts announced that Nick Foles would be starting but the news had already broken from an unlikely source.

With this information at your disposal, it’s now your decision to determine whether the whole post was made-up from the get-go, or, the smoke was real and you’re convinced DeFilippo has been hired. Although Press Taylor was indeed the assistant QBs coach for the Super Bowl Champion Eagles team of 2017, it’s quite impossible to imagine a scenario where Taylor returns to Indy this season. Mainly due to the fact he [Taylor] is the current offensive coordinator for the up-and-coming, AFC South foe of the Colts, the Jacksonville Jaguars. (FWIW: the user deleted the details of the said post shortly thereafter but So, maybe this anonymous Redditor’s claim is true, and Indy could be adding another coach to the staff for the final stretch of the season. The veteran offensive coach stepped away from the NFL sidelines for this season but didn’t entirely extinguish the idea of returning.