{"id":685226,"date":"2026-01-17T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685226\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:01:14","slug":"colts-center-tanor-bortolini-was-pffs-most-improved-player-at-position-after-breakout-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685226\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts center Tanor Bortolini was PFF\u2019s most improved player at position after \u2018breakout\u2019 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Colts are the NFL\u2019s offensive lineman factory. Their ability to churn out NFL starters at every position across the offensive line is unparalleled. Lost a key starter? Not a problem, it steps the next man up to play sound football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The player to fill that role for the Colts in 2025 was Tanor Bortolini (82.6 grade; 3rd), the team\u2019s fourth-round pick in 2024. Bortolini spot-started in place of the oft-injured Ryan Kelly in 2024, generating a 65.1 overall PFF grade while playing steady football. Bortolini didn\u2019t look like a star, but showed he could be serviceable, and a potential option if Kelly moved on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">With Kelly leaving in free agency, the Colts showed faith in Bortolini, and their confidence has been justly rewarded. Bortolini had a breakout season and anchored one of the best offensive lines in football in 2025. The Colts finished the year with the second-best PFF pass-blocking grade and fourth-best PFF run-blocking grade in football. Bortolini allowed just 17 pressures and zero sacks, and ended the campaign as one of the NFL\u2019s rising stars in the trenches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colts are the NFL\u2019s offensive lineman factory. Their ability to churn out NFL starters at every position&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685227,"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-685226","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\/115912932416137172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685226","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=685226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}