Roughly two days after the Indianapolis Colts lost starting quarterback Daniel Jones to a season-ending torn Achilles tendon, reports revealed that 44-year-old signal-caller Philip Rivers was ending his retirement to join the Colts' practice squad.

The Colts reportedly plan to start Rivers when they play at the 10-3 Seattle Seahawks this coming Sunday. For a piece published on Wednesday morning, Stephen Holder and Jeremy Fowler of ESPN detailed how the most shocking in-season signing in recent NFL history came to be.

Had Philip Rivers' return to Colts, NFL been coming?

According to Holder and Fowler, one Colts source believes that "the possibility of Rivers as an emergency option was at least an informal thought among some in the building once" first-choice backu

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