3 Colts Players Named 2025 Pro Bowlers, 2 Named Alternates
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3 Colts Players Named 2025 Pro Bowlers, 2 Named Alternates
Indianapolis – The NFL today announced that Colts linebacker Zaire Franklin, guard Quenton Nelson and running back Jonathan Taylor have been named to the 2025 Pro Bowl Games.
Franklin, 6-0, 235 pounds, has started all 16 games this season and has compiled 165 tackles (90 solo), 10.0 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, five passes defensed, two interceptions and four forced fumbles. He leads the NFL in total tackles and ranks fourth in solo tackles. This marks his first career Pro Bowl selection.
Nelson, 6-5, 330 pounds, has started all 16 games this season. He becomes the first player in team history to earn Pro Bowl honors in each of his first seven career seasons. Nelson also becomes just the third NFL offensive lineman to be selected to the Pro Bowl in each of his first seven career seasons, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Thomas and Richmond Webb. He is the first Colts player to be selected to seven consecutive Pro Bowls since Peyton Manning (2004-2010). The last Colts offensive lineman to be selected to seven consecutive Pro Bowls was Jim Parker (1959-65).
Taylor, 5-10, 226 pounds, has played in 13 games (12 starts) this season and has registered 269 carries for 1,254 yards (4.7 avg.) and 10 touchdowns. He has also caught 17 passes for 133 yards and one touchdown. Taylor ranks seventh in the NFL in rushing yards. This marks his second career Pro Bowl selection (2021 season).
Colts defensive tackle DeForest Buckner and center Ryan Kelly were named 2025 Pro Bowl alternates.
Buckner, who earned Pro Bowl nods in 2018, 2021 and 2023, enters Week 18 with 6 1/2 sacks, eight tackles for a loss and 13 quarterback hits in 11 games. Buckner’s 84.0 Pro Football Focus overall defense grade ranks sixth among defensive tackles.
Kelly, a four-time Pro Bowler (2019-2021, 2023), enters the Colts’ regular season finale with a 72.4 Pro Football Focus pass blocking grade, fourth-highest among centers with at least 500 snaps. Only two centers – Kansas City’s Creed Humphrey and Denver’s Luke Wattenberg – have allowed fewer pressures than Kelly’s nine over his 523 snaps this season.
Buckner and Kelly will hope to join three teammates in Orlando for the 2025 Pro Bowl Games on Feb. 1: Linebacker Zaire Franklin, left guard Quenton Nelson and running back Jonathan Taylor.
