{"id":668364,"date":"2026-01-11T08:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/668364\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:47:17","slug":"colts-jonathan-taylor-nominee-for-fedex-air-ground-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/668364\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts Jonathan Taylor nominee for FedEx Air &#038; Ground Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 9, 2026, 8:46 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Indianapolis Colts&#8217;<\/a> running back Jonathan Taylor has been nominated for a season-long award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The NFL&#8217;s FedEx Air and Ground Players of the Year have been announced, and Taylor is among the nine nominees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Fans can vote for the winner, and the top three players will be honored at the 15th annual NFL Honors during Super Bowl week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The FedEx Air and Ground Player of the Year is the &#8220;longest-running fan-voted&#8221; award program. You can cast your vote for Taylor <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=83224X1595658&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nfl.com%2Fvoting%2Fair-and-ground%2Fplayer-of-the-year&amp;xcust=SCLT&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fcoltswire.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fcolts%2F2026%2F01%2F09%2Fcolts-jonathan-taylor-nominated-season-long-award%2F88110187007%2F\" data-v-afl=\"\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Taylor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1,585 rushing yards<\/a> in 2025 were the third-most in the NFL. His 18 rushing touchdowns led the league, as did his 20 total touchdowns. Only two running backs had more rushes of 10-plus yards than Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Taylor&#8217;s season was highlighted by a 244-yard performance against Atlanta in Week 10. He also had two other games with at least 150 rushing yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Along with Taylor, the other nominees include Josh Allen, Drake Maye, Matthew Stafford, Christian McCaffrey, Bijan Robinson, Puka Nacua, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and Trey McBride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 9, 2026, 8:46 p.m. ET Indianapolis Colts&#8217; running back Jonathan Taylor has been nominated for a season-long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,95882,96193,97121,96127,95903,96812,95901,95927,95896,95888,95895,95906,96813,95883,96061,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-668364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcolts","16":"tag-sstsncolts","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbijan-robinson","19":"tag-tagchristian-mccaffrey","20":"tag-tagdrake-maye","21":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","22":"tag-tagjaxon-smith-njigba","23":"tag-tagjonathan-taylor","24":"tag-tagmatthew-stafford","25":"tag-tagnational-sports","26":"tag-tagnfl","27":"tag-tagnfl-hub","28":"tag-tagoverall-positive","29":"tag-tagpuka-nacua","30":"tag-tagsports-news","31":"tag-tagtrey-mcbride","32":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668364","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=668364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}