The Athletic's Mike Sando put together his annual quarterback tiers and rankings for the quarterback position, including the Indianapolis Colts' Anthony Richardson. To help cultivate these tiers, Sando spoke with 50 NFL coaches and executives to get their opinions on each player.

The Colts quarterback competition between Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones is one of the biggest storylines of the NFL preseason, but Richardson's campaign got off to an inauspicious start when he took a hard sack early in the first quarter of Indianapolis' preseason opener against the Ravens.

As of Thursday morning, it seemed that Colts HC Shane Steichen was not all that close to naming either Richardson or Jones the team's starting quarterback.