Michael Pittman Jr. Says He Was ‘Shocked’ When Colts Signed Philip Rivers

The NFL world was shocked when the Colts signed 44-year-old QB Philip Rivers to switch an injured Daniel Jones … and that features the staff’s prime broad receiver, Michael Pittman, who informed TMZ Sports activities he was “shocked!”

Whereas that was his first emotion, Pittman informed us there was additionally pleasure concerning the transfer, particularly since Rivers was his first quarterback after coming into the league in 2020 (it was PR’s final season, till now, in fact).

“He actually taught me every part that I realized about being a professional and about routine and every part,” Pittman informed Babcock.

“So I really feel like there’s quite a lot of love there. I am excited for him. He is similar to, he is fired up. He nonetheless seems like the identical younger man that he was in 2020 and we’ll see what transpires.”

Despite the fact that the circumstances round his return aren’t supreme — in spite of everything, DJ tore his Achilles — Pittman remains to be assured his staff, presently 11-5, could make a push to the playoffs, and past.

“We nonetheless have a extremely gifted staff, now we have a extremely good protection, now we have actually good offensive weapons, so we’re not going to surrender,” he mentioned.

“We’ll look again after these 4 video games, and possibly it really works, possibly it does not, however we will give our greatest effort.”

The query on everybody’s thoughts, nonetheless, is how does the previous man’s arm look?

In response to Pittman, not a lot has modified for the reason that final time they shared the sector.

“Philip appears like, to me, he appears like the identical man in 2020,” he mentioned.

That season — which turned out to be his final in an NFL uniform — Rivers threw for 4,169 yards with 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.