This may not be a good thing for your fantasy football team, but it’s a good thing for your real football team.

The Colts’ offense is going to spread the ball around. Guys who get heavily targeted one week might only get a handful of throws the next week. That has nothing to do with performance or confidence in the team’s pass-catchers; it has everything to do with matchups and how opposing defenses will attack the Colts’ offense.

Week 1 was a heavy week for Tyler Warren (nine targets, seven catches, 76 yards) and Michael Pittman Jr. (eight targets, six catches, 60 yards, 1 touchdown). Week 2 against Denver? Who knows. Maybe it’ll be the same guys. Maybe it’ll be Josh Downs or Alec Pierce, who each were targeted three times in Week 1. Maybe it’ll be a pound the rock game for Jonathan Taylor, who carried 18 times for 71 yards against Miami, with Mo Alie-Cox and Drew Ogletree clearing paths for him on the ground. Maybe Adonai Mitchell, who had two targets last weekend, is the matchup advantage the Colts look toward.

The point is: It’s not just a guessing game for fans or media or fantasy football folks. It’s a guessing game for opposing defenses.

“Obviously, we have five eligible receivers on any given pass play. I think it’s really good when all five of those guys are real threats,” offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter said. “And when they can do different things well, it builds in sort of more overall threats your offense can pose to the defense.”

Cooter noted that the Colts also don’t have just guys who can do different things as pass-catchers; those guys are willing and capable blockers, which enhances the versatility with which the offense can operate. Pittman in particular has been a rugged presence on the perimeter for years, while in Week 1, Warren’s 88.6 Pro Football Focus run block grade was the highest among NFL tight ends with at least 10 run blocking snaps.

“… We’re lucky enough to have guys that are willing and they work at blocking in the run game,” Cooter said. “So now you combine sort of that multiplicity of threats in the pass game with a really good running game that you can do different things with different guys in. Now you really got a shot. Our guys have done a great job of sort of learning our weekly game plans and going out there and executing and the good part about having multiple threats is that the defense has to defend everybody.”

But it’s one thing to say you’re going to spread the ball around as an offense. It’s another to actually have good players to throw to – sometimes, in the NFL, the “we’re going to spread the ball around” mentality is a backdoor admission that an offense doesn’t have much talent.

That’s not a way you can describe the group of players assembled around quarterback Daniel Jones. The Colts have a guy in Pittman who was a 100/1,000 receiver two years ago; Pierce led the NFL in yards per reception in 2024; Downs’ 140 catches from 2023-2024 are fifth-most among players from his draft class; Warren was a first-round pick; Mitchell possesses an immense amount of talent.

And then there’s another thing: All those guys – Taylor included – are remarkably unselfish.

“That’s a team-first mentality,” head coach Shane Steichen said. “That’s this business, especially with the skill positions. I always tell those guys, ‘We’ve got one football, and we’ve got about five or six dudes that can go get it.’ And I thought last week – obviously, moving onto this week, but I thought Daniel (Jones) did a good job distributing the ball. I think all those guys were involved.

“Obviously, we’ll have plays up for all those guys every week. Some week it might be one guy that catches 12, and the next week he might catch two. It’s just how it plays out sometimes. And that’s why you’ve got to be selfless at that position for sure.”