Colts win, but we have to ask the hard question again: Is Anthony Richardson injury-prone?

He's started eight NFL games. He's failed to complete four of them due to injuries. Will he stay healthy long enough for us to learn if he's the real deal?

Anthony Richardson knows what we’ll say. He knows what we’ve already said about his inability to stay healthy, the fact that last year, he played just four games and got knocked out of two of them before a shoulder injury shelved him for the entire season. Now, it’s happened again, Richardson running the first-quarter zone read and taking a shot from safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, injuring his hip and chasing him from the game after just 13 snaps.

Here we go again.

“People are going to talk about injuries; people are going to say he’s injury prone, blah blah blah,” Richardson said as he sat in front of his locker after the Colts’ 27-24 victory over the Steelers. “But, you know, nobody wants to get injured. Everybody wants to stay on the field, so of course, I was like, `Damn, not again.’ But no, it’s all good, it’s God’s plan and I trust Him.”

There are so many questions with Richardson.

Notably this one: Is he injury prone, dealing now with what the NFL Network reported as a hip pointer?

Or, as Richardson might say, “Blah blah blah.”

Frankly, I don’t worry about his ability to harness that unfathomable athleticism and make the ordinary plays that have been so difficult in the early going. That will come in time. You see the throws he makes way downfield, the explosives, as the football people like to call them, and you know he’s got a unique skillset that just requires time and nurturing. We saw another small sample size Sunday, when Richardson was 3-of-4 for 71 yards and three carries for 24 yards.

But the injury situation is more than a little bit worrisome. Check that: A lot more worrisome. Small sample sizes are all we ever see. He’s started eight games in the NFL and he’s been knocked out of four. I’m not good at math, but 50 percent is not a workable number for a franchise that’s been looking for a solution at quarterback since Andrew Luck retired. Is this all a fluke or is there reason to fret? I’m thinking it’s the latter. This doesn’t look like a fluke. This looks like…something else. What, exactly, I’m not entirely sure.