It\u2019s the sixth time that Nelson has been named an NFL All-Pro in his future Hall of Fame career\u2014having been named an NFL First-Team All-Pro during 2018-20 and an NFL 2nd-Team All-Pro in 2021, 2024, and 2025 respectively. He\u2019s also been an NFL Pro Bowler in each of his first eight seasons.<\/p>\n
Given injuries to their other stars, the only other Colts player who should\u2019ve been realistically been under consideration this past year was star workhorse Jonathan Taylor, but after he saw his production decline down the season\u2019s final stretch, he was beat out by both the Atlanta Falcons Bijan Robinson (1st-Team) and the Buffalo Bills James Cook (2nd-Team) at his position respectively.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth noting that the group of Taylor, rookie tight end Tyler Warren, safety Cam Bynum, punter Rigoberto Sanchez, long-snapper Luke Rhodes, and special teamer (wideout) Ashton Dulin all received votes though.<\/p>\n
Regarding Nelson though, he made all 17 starts for Indianapolis again this season\u2014which he\u2019s done four seasons in a row becoming a modern day ironman out there. Per PFF, Nelson earned a +84.5 overall grade this past year, which was the 4th highest among all players at offensive guard.<\/p>\n
Consistently the catalyst along the Colts offensive line yet again, the 29-year-old offensive guard was instrumental in paving the way for Taylor to rush for 1,585 total rushing yards and 18 rushing touchdowns on 323 total carries. In pass protection, Nelson was equally exceptional\u2014allowing just a single sack, 2 QB hits, and 15 total pressures during 637 total pass blocking snaps this past year.<\/p>\n
Obviously, it\u2019s another tip of the cap to Nelson who no doubt appears to be Canton-bound when it\u2019s all said and done. Hopefully, the Colts can finally get him back to the playoffs again because he\u2019s only played in 3 career postseason games, which simply hasn\u2019t been good enough as of late collectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the sixth time that Nelson has been named an NFL All-Pro in his future Hall of Fame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,3562,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-669840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-news","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115878777626481955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669840","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=669840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}