New Colts quarterback Philip Rivers said that until Daniel Jones got hurt on Sunday, he thought he was 100 percent retired.

“I wasn’t hanging onto any hope of playing again. I kind of thought that ship had sailed,” Rivers said. “But something about it excited me. It’s one of those deals where a door opens and you either walk through it and find out if you can do it, or run from it. I know there’s risk involved, but the only way to find out is going for it.”

Rivers said he was watching the Colts game and as soon as Jones was ruled out with an Achilles injury, he began to wonder if Colts head coach Shane Steichen would ask him to play.

“When that happened, in my mind, I was like, ‘What in the world?’ Just how crazy this would be on the quarterback position, I have to admit I thought,'I wo

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