Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2023 revision of our top 50 Indianapolis Colts.
As for all of our top 50 players in football, we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Football League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, the Colts failed to make the playoffs, but we saw one new entrant and one elevation.
As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:
1. Peyton Manning
2. Johnny Unitas
3. Gino Marchetti
4. Marvin Harrison
5. Raymond Berry
You can find the entire list here.
Offensive Lineman and six-time Pro Bowl Selection Quenton Nelson, advances to #22 from #30.
The lone new entry is Center Ryan Kelly, who debuts at #45.
Notably, Shaquille Leonard, who played half last season with Indianapolis, could not rise from his rank of #40.
Buddy Young fell out of the Top 50.
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Playing his first seven years at Offensive Tackle, Cam Robinson started all 91 games that he played for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Robinson, who came to the club as a Second-Round Pick from Alabama, won a National Championship with the Crimson Tide, the Outland Trophy, and was a Unanimous All-American.
Robinson was traded during the 2024 Season to Minnesota.
In his final year at Kentucky (2018), Josh Hines-Allen was the best Linebacker in the nation, winning the Chuck Bednarik Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Jack Lambert Trophy, and SEC Defensive Player of the Year. This success propelled him to the seventh overall pick in the 2019 Draft, landing with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Hines-Allen was an All-Rookie and Pro Bowl Selection, becoming the first Jaguar rookie to make the Pro Bowl. He also led his team in Sacks (10.5). His second season was disappointing as he missed half of it with an injury, but the pass-rusher would rebound, and in 2023, Hines-Allen had career-highs in Sacks (17.5), Tackles for Loss (17), and Quarterback Hits (33). This season would earn him his second Pro Bowl.
Entering 2025 with 53 career Sacks, Hines-Allen has an excellent shot to break the top 20 in next year's ranking.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have been around since 1995, but they did not get their true franchise Quarterback until they drafted Trevor Lawrence with the number one pick in 2021.
The Jags struggled in Lawrence’s rookie year, a far cry from his success at Clemson, where he led the Tigers to a National Championship. As a rookie, Lawrence threw for 3,641 Yards but only won three games and threw a league-leading 17 Interceptions. The Jags improved around Lawrence in 2022, as did the QB, who had 4,113 Yards and a TD-INT ratio of 25-8. Individually, he went to the Pro Bowl and took Jacksonville to the playoffs. In 2023, he again had over 4,000 Passing Yards, but was injured for most of the 2024 Season and was not a star when he did play, and enters this year at a crossroads.
Will Lawrence be a top-five QB in 2025, or have we seen the best of what he has to offer at the pro level.