Who is the Indianapolis Colts’ best player heading into the 2025 NFL season? Pro Football Network made their selection.
Who is the Indianapolis Colts’ best player heading into the 2025 NFL season?
Pro Football Network recently answered that question for all 32 teams. When it came to the Colts, they selected left guard Quenton Nelson.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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 PFF’s pass rush win rate metric, 12th in pass rush productivity, and ninth in run-stop rate.
New offseason additions Cam Bynum and Charvarius Ward could perhaps find themselves in the mix with this conversation as well.