Coming up with a way to describe the best running back in football, maybe the best player in football, isn’t as easy as you might think.

Most descriptors feel like empty platitudes, words that fall short of the gravity required to explain what we’re seeing.

Of course Jonathan Taylor is great. Of course he’s remarkable. Of course what he’s doing to opposing defenses is preposterous. We all know this.

We all saw what he did in the Colts’ 38-14 win over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, with three more touchdowns, punctuated by an 80-yard dash up the near sideline that was as jaw-dropping as it was unsurprising. If that makes sense.

Of course Taylor could and would do something like that 80-yard dash, on which he made safeties Xavier Woods and Amani Hooker – who didn’t even take all that bad of angles toward him – whiff on tackle attempts like they were five-year-olds trying to hit a Nolan Ryan fastball. Those defenders had Taylor mere inches from the Colts’ sideline, and even as Taylor tiptoed to stay in bounds, he managed to continue accelerating, hitting a top speed of a touch over 21 miles per hour on his way to the end zone.

“I feel bad for anybody that has to go against him,” safety Cam Bynum said.

Maybe the best way to describe Taylor in 2025 is inevitable. He is an inevitable football player in that, at some point in a game, it’s become inevitable that he’ll make a game-changing play. He has 14 touchdowns in eight games; five entire offenses haven’t reached the end zone that many times through Week 8.

(If you’re wondering, those teams are the Titans, Las Vegas Raiders, New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons and Cleveland Browns.)

“It’s hard to put into words, to be honest, because when you see the way he’s running, the way the guys are blocking for him, I mean, it’s special,” head coach Shane Steichen said. “It really is. And like I said, he’s running hard. He’s running physical. Even when things aren’t clean in there, he’s finding ways to get three, four (yards) and then the 80-yard touchdown run – he hit that thing down the sidelines, and to stay in bounds, it was as impressive as it gets.”