{"id":97324,"date":"2025-06-02T05:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/97324\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:05:13","slug":"quenton-nelson-named-indianapolis-colts-best-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/97324\/","title":{"rendered":"Quenton Nelson named Indianapolis Colts’ best player"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is the Indianapolis Colts’ best player heading into the 2025 NFL season? Pro Football Network made their selection.<\/p>\n

Who is the Indianapolis Colts’<\/a> best player heading into the 2025 NFL season?<\/p>\n

Pro Football Network<\/a> recently answered that question for all 32 teams. When it came to the Colts<\/a>, they selected left guard Quenton Nelson.<\/p>\n

“Quenton Nelson has made it to the Pro Bowl in every season he’s played since entering the NFL in 2018,” wrote PFN. “A seven-time Pro Bowler and a five-time All-Pro, he’s on his way to a Hall of Fame career with a couple more seasons at this level of play.”<\/p>\n

Nelson would make his seventh consecutive Pro Bowl last season and was named a second-team All-Pro as well, his first All-Pro nod since 2021.<\/p>\n

Nelson ranked 15th among all guards in PFF’s pass-blocking efficiency metric, and he was fourth in run-blocking grade, with Jonathan Taylor averaging 4.8 yards per rush when running to Nelson’s direct left and 5.3 yards per rush when running to his direct right.<\/p>\n

Along with Nelson, also in this conversation could be Jonathan Taylor, who rushed for 1,431 yards last season–the fourth-most in the NFL.<\/p>\n

DeForest Buckner is another candidate as he continues to put together one high-level season after another. Compared league-wide to his position group last season, Buckner was seventh in\u00a0PFF’s pass rush win rate<\/a>\u00a0metric, 12th in pass rush productivity, and ninth in run-stop rate.<\/p>\n

New offseason additions Cam Bynum and Charvarius Ward could perhaps find themselves in the mix with this conversation as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is the Indianapolis Colts’ best player heading into the 2025 NFL season? Pro Football Network made their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,5006,5611,5610,1673,5612,4991,2005,12157,12158,7,2004,392,2381,1979,1753,248,267,5180,88,6,245,537,530,23113,4982,818,817,829,9,266,819,2355,776,5134],"class_list":{"0":"post-97324","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-buckner","11":"tag-bynum","12":"tag-camryn","13":"tag-camryn-bynum","14":"tag-charvarius","15":"tag-charvarius-ward","16":"tag-colts","17":"tag-deforest","18":"tag-deforest-buckner","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-indianapolis","21":"tag-indianapolis-colts","22":"tag-indianapoliscolts","23":"tag-jonathan","24":"tag-jonathan-taylor","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-nelson","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-nfl","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-positive","32":"tag-positive","33":"tag-quenton","34":"tag-quenton-nelson","35":"tag-scores","36":"tag-sport","37":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-statistics","41":"tag-taylor","42":"tag-u0026","43":"tag-ward"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114612032225852343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97324","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=97324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}