Great news for the Colts. Quarterback Carson Wentz is “trending” to play in the season opener against the Seahawks (Twitter link via Chris Mortensen of ESPN.com). Ditto for All-Pro guard Quenton Nelson, who also underwent foot surgery. 
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Things were looking bleak for the Colts just a few days ago as both players were projected to miss a chunk of September. Nothing’s certain just yet, but it appears that Wentz and Nelson will be good to go after all. With Wentz under center, Jacob Eason and Sam Ehlinger will no longer have to cram for the QB1 role — the youngsters are now back to competing for the backup job.
Nelson, meanwhile, should be able to man LG to start the year. Now, the Colts just need more good news on the rest of their front five. Center Ryan Kelly is still nursing an elbow injury that’s keeping him off the practice field while new left tackle Eric Fisher is working his way back from an Achilles tear. Fortunately, Kelly’s elbow issue doesn’t seem all that serious and the latest word on Fisher is promising, even though there’s no timeline for his full return just yet.
“Yeah, I’ve seen him – just watching a couple of his workouts with our trainers working him out, I think he looks really good,” head coach Frank Reich said this week. “In fact, I saw him doing something the other day and I yelled over, ‘Put some pads on him!’ I thought he looked that good.”
The Colts hope to have all three lineman healthy with support — not spot starts — from Chris Reed and Sam Tevi.
You know Carson working extra hard to get back on the field and prevent any dude to take his place. His worst nightmare at this point must be for him to get injured and the backup does well enough to put enough doubt that he should even be the starting QB. I know it would be mine with his injury history. He ain’t tryna turn Sam Ehlinger into Nick Foles- only one Westlake QB can screw up his career lol
I’ll believe it when I see it. Still too early to say either of them will be in the lineup Week 1.
Players wanna play….
What’s worse though, missing weeks 1-2 or 5-12…
Coming back too early sometimes makes things worse.
It appears that the Colts doctor has trouble making accurate prognosis regarding injuries and if were Frank Reich, I’d be a bit concerned about that.
Wentz Injured
Wentz Returns Ahead of Schedule
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Anyone remember the rest of this movie and it’s reboots?
Please don’t have Wentz start unless he is 100% healed. I’d rather lose the 1-2 games than the entire season.