After four years away from the game, Philip Rivers, 44 years young, unretired and returned to the NFL with the quarterback-needy Colts, whose signal-caller depth chart was riddled with injury at a pivotal moment with Indianapolis in the midst of a playoff race. But with the Colts reeling off of six straight losses and eliminated from playoff contention, Rivers's run came to an end, as Indianapolis on Tuesday announced it intended to start rookie Riley Leonard in the Week 18 season finale on Sunday against the Texans.
The end of Rivers's improbable three-game run as a starter for the Colts is also the end of his pro football career, as Rivers on Wednesday confirmed during an appearance on The Up & Adams Show.
