INDIANAPOLIS -- No matter how much Andrew Luck's competitive juices flow and no matter how much the Indianapolis Colts quarterback wants to play in a regular-season game this season, the franchise should shut him down for the rest of the season to avoid any more setbacks in what's been two-plus trying seasons.
Wednesday's news of the team deciding to shut Luck down for the time being and giving him a cortisone shot in his surgically repaired right shoulder should have sealed Luck's 2017 fate.
Colts general manager Chris Ballard talked like a person who is leaving that possibility open, because he wouldn't put a timeline on when Luck will return to practice and he couldn't say for sure that his $140 million quarterback will play this season.