{"id":678526,"date":"2026-01-15T06:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678526\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:17:21","slug":"colts-player-on-offense-among-pffs-most-improved-in-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678526\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts player on offense among PFF&#8217;s most improved in 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indianapolis Colts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> was named the most improved player at his respective position group by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/the-most-improved-nfl-player-at-every-position-in-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pro Football Focus.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pro Football Focus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using PFF&#8217;s grading system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/the-most-improved-nfl-player-at-every-position-in-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thomas Valentine noted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thomas Valentine noted<\/a> which player from each position saw his grade take the biggest jump from 2024 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>At center, that player was Tanor Bortolini.<\/p>\n<p>In his second NFL season, Bortolini took over as the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Colts<\/a>&#8216; starting center. Over 566 pass-blocking snaps, he did not allow a single sack.<\/p>\n<p>Among all centers, he ranked 16th in pass-blocking efficiency and third in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PFF&#039;s run-blocking;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PFF&#8217;s run-blocking<\/a> grade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bortolini had a breakout season and anchored one of the best offensive lines in football in 2025,&#8221; wrote Valentine. &#8220;The Colts finished the year with the second-best PFF pass-blocking grade and fourth-best PFF run-blocking grade in football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bortolini&#8217;s overall grade from PFF was the third-highest at his position group.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2026\/01\/14\/colts-tanor-bortolini-among-most-improved-players-2025-season\/88176554007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colts Tanor Bortolini among PFF&#039;s most improved players in 2025 season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Colts Tanor Bortolini among PFF&#8217;s most improved players in 2025 season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One member of the Indianapolis Colts was named the most improved player at his respective position group by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,99134,6,8467,410,2788,23904],"class_list":["post-678526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-colts","tag-football","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-most-improved-player","tag-nfl","tag-position-group","tag-pro-football-focus","tag-tanor-bortolini","tag-thomas-valentine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115897659870317139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678526","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=678526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}