Indianapolis Colts

West Coast — Rhythm passing sets up the run.
Team fit 86.6 A− · Read the full guide →

3-4 Base — Two-gap front, hybrid edges.
Team fit 83.1 B+

A middle-of-the-league roster with specific, nameable strengths and one problem it cannot hide. The face of it is Jonathan Taylor (HB, 96).

Reality check: it is worse than the game thinks. Jones threw for 108 yards with a pick in a 16-10 loss at Minnesota, the Colts are 2-5 on a three-game skid, and the general manager was already fired after the Tennessee collapse. The 76 on this page is starting to look generous.

Jonathan Taylor (HB, 96) is the headliner. 97 carrying — the ball simply does not come out; 96 broken tackles — runs through arm tackles like they are suggestions; 95 ball carrier vision — sees the cutback a step before it opens. Everything this offense does is built to get him the ball in the situations those numbers describe.

The ceiling has a name: Daniel Jones (74). Defenses know it, the playbook knows it, and the punter — this offense's most frequent participant — knows it best of all. After him, the cliff is real — the next-best skill player is Tyler Warren (84). Take the headliner away and this is a different, much quieter offense. Fine print — Daniel Jones: he tore his Achilles last December while already playing on a fractured fibula, and still won his job back for 2026.

Sauce Gardner (CB, 89) sets the terms. 96 press — gets hands on receivers at the line and reroutes the whole concept; 94 acceleration — zero to full speed in a blink — the first three steps are already gone. Offenses spend the week accounting for him, and the rest of this defense eats in the space that creates.

The back end (83.0 average) is the strength and the front (74.7) is ordinary — this defense wins by making quarterbacks hold the ball, then covering long enough for average rushers to arrive. Two corners at 85+ (Sauce Gardner 89, Charvarius Ward Sr 88) is rare — only 4 teams have it — and it is what lets this defense call man coverage without holding its breath.

Spencer Shrader (84) kicks — 97 leg, 93 accuracy, one of the better specialists in the game. Rigoberto Sanchez (83) punts — 94 leg, 92 accuracy. Top return man is Ashton Dulin (83 return).

Offense: Anthony Richardson Sr (QB, 68 OVR) — a 96 throw power buried at 68 overall. Somebody's quarterback room is always one injury from finding out what that arm is worth.

Defense: Justin Walley (CB, 72 OVR). Read the ratings page twice: the overall says 72, the speed says 92. Speed is the one trait that plays at any overall — it travels to any package, any formation, any Sunday.