{"id":205679,"date":"2025-07-14T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/205679\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T05:22:13","slug":"former-colts-de-dwight-freeney-playing-in-american-century-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/205679\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Colts DE Dwight Freeney playing in American Century Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entering the final round on Sunday of the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, where does former Colts&#8217; DE Dwight Freeney find himself on the leaderboard?<\/p>\n<p>Entering the final round on Sunday of the <a href=\"https:\/\/americancenturychampionship.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Century Celebrity Golf Championship<\/a>, where does former <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts&#8217; <\/a>defensive end Dwight Freeney find himself on the leaderboard?<\/p>\n<p>After Round 1 on Friday, Freeney found himself tied for 26th after posting +8 points. While typically, one wants to be negative, or under par, in golf, this event uses a different format.<\/p>\n<p>In this tournament, players are awarded&#8211;or subtracted points&#8211;based on what they score on a hole. For example, an eagle is worth six points, a birdie three points, and a par is one point. A double-bogey or worse, meanwhile, is minus two points off your score.<\/p>\n<p>Where former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colts<\/a>&#8216; DE Dwight Freeney lands on the American Century Championship leaderboard entering the final round<\/p>\n<p>After the second round, Freeney still finds himself at +8 points overall, which puts him in a tie for 39th going into the final day on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way in first place are Joe Pavelski and Taylor Twellman at +44 points. On the flip side, Dylan Dreyer is last at -43 points.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FreeDw00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11 seasons with the Colts<\/a>, Freeney played in 163 games, forced 44 fumbles, totaled 113 tackles for loss, and had 107.5 sacks. Freeney is a Hall of Famer, a Super Bowl champion, a seven-time Pro Bowler, and a three-time All-Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entering the final round on Sunday of the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, where does former Colts&#8217; DE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,2005,29272,10230,1368,7,43624,8085,1367,20842,2004,392,2381,246,88,6,35196,152,245,264,1259,1371,818,817,829,9,266,819,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-205679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-colts","11":"tag-dwight","12":"tag-dwight-freeney","13":"tag-fame","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-freeney","16":"tag-golf","17":"tag-hall","18":"tag-hub","19":"tag-indianapolis","20":"tag-indianapolis-colts","21":"tag-indianapoliscolts","22":"tag-neutral","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-nfl-hub","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-overall","28":"tag-overall-neutral","29":"tag-pro","30":"tag-pro-football-hall-of-fame","31":"tag-scores","32":"tag-sport","33":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-sports-news","36":"tag-statistics","37":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114849916102054300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}