While general manager Chris Ballard agrees that Richardson was not intentionally trying to put himself in harm’s way, he said the 21-year-old has to learn how to avoid hits when possible.
“It was a little like this with Andrew [Luck],” Ballard said. “Where I’d tell Andrew, instinctively when you get in the game, you react to whatever your instincts take you to. So, to tell him, ‘Hey, look, you got to get down or you got to get out of bounds.’ And Andrew’s like, ‘Chris, my instincts and my competitive nature just takes over.’ And then the same thing happens with Anthony. I don’t think he’s reckless by any stretch and I didn’t think that Andrew was either. I think they’re competitive. But learning when to get out of bounds, when to get down versus when to go for it – those are going to be things you just kind of have to learn.”
As Richardson continues to work on that balance of wanting to use his six-foot-4, 244-pound frame to fight for extra yardage and playing it safe, he said in the end his primary goal is to do whatever it takes to help the team win.
“I can’t try to run through everybody,” Richardson said. “If it’s first-and-10, get what I can get and get down, get out of bounds, get to the sidelines, do what I can do. But if the game is on the line, I gotta go out there and compete. It’s just a matter of being smart for myself and the team. I’m gonna try to do that for sure.”
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