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Daniel Jones injury update: Colts QB exits game, immediately gets awful diagnosis

On3 imageby: Dan Morrison8 hours agodan_morrison96

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Daniel Jones suffered a very scary injury in the first half of the team’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. With less than a minute in the first quarter, Jones suffered a non-contact injury and was forced to exit the game, being replaced by rookie Riley Leonard.

Jones would be attended to on the field, with trainers focusing on his lower leg. Very shortly after he exited the game, the Colts announced that Jones would not return with an Achilles injury. However, the exact nature of the injury is still unclear. Still, that’s a very bad sign for the veteran quarterback who has had a renaissance season with Indianapolis.

Initially, Daniel Jones tried to limp off the field before going down. He would be visibly frustrated, slamming his helmet into the ground while trainers attended to him. That non-contact injury can be seen, here:

At the time, the Colts trailed Jacksonville 14-7 in a game that is vital to the AFC South race. Both teams entered the game at 8-4 and in a tie for first place in the division. They’re also both just one game ahead of the Houston Texans. It’s the first of two meetings for these two teams.

Indianapolis needed to get a good result on Sunday too. The Colts lost two straight and three of their last four entering the game. Now, that task is astronomically harder without Daniel Jones.

A former first round pick who would eventually be benched in his final season with the New York Giants before moving on to the Minnesota Vikings, Jones found a home in Indianapolis this offseason. There, he beat out Anthony Richardson for the starting job. Jones hasn’t looked back since then.

A key factor for the Colts getting off to the start they did this season, Jones has been phenomenal. In the 12 games prior to kickoff against the Jaguars, Jones is completing 67.9 percent of his passes, which would be a career high. He’s done that for 3,041 yards to 19 touchdowns and seven touchdowns. That’s also a career high in yards per completion at 11.9 and yards per game at 253.4 yards. He’s also rushed for 160 yards and another five touchdowns.

This Achilles injury comes shortly after it was reported that Daniel Jones has been playing through a fractured fibula. He first appeared on the injury report with a fibula injury in November, but had been able to play through the injury to this point. That injury seemed to have occurred in practice, but it hasn’t kept him off the field.

Hopefully, the Achilles issue that Daniel Jones is dealing with won’t be as severe as it initially looked. Still, the injuries are adding up now in what had been a special season for Jones and the Colts.