{"id":227226,"date":"2025-10-20T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227226\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:04:19","slug":"colts-jonathan-taylor-has-matched-a-recent-nfl-record-that-he-himself-set-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227226\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts&#8217; Jonathan Taylor has matched a recent NFL record that he himself set in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Taylor can&#8217;t be stopped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a>&#8216; running back continued his torrid start to the season on Sunday as the Colts themselves stayed red hot with a win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/los-angeles-chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, in the process, matched his own recent bit of NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts&#8217; RB has run for 10 touchdowns in his last five games. The last player to do that? Taylor himself, in 2021, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-week-7-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to NFL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor ran for three touchdowns on Sunday, and in the process, marked his third game this season with three rushing touchdowns (which is insane through just seven weeks).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s more three-TD rushing games by Taylor than by the entire NFL combined this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/new-york-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giants<\/a> rookie Cam Skattebo had one, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Browns<\/a> rookie Quinshon Judkins just did it on Sunday himself.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vikings<\/a><a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/minnesota-vikings\/news\/vikings-massive-sam-darnold-mistake-daniel-jones-worse\/5f71cc6e637e7c50a04d14b3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0made a massive Sam Darnold mistake, and Daniel Jones is making it feel worse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s Taylor 3, a couple of rookies combined for 2, and no one else in the NFL with a three touchdown day on the ground this season so far.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor has paired so nicely with Daniel Jones and a strong offensive line to keep the Colts as the AFC&#8217;s best team so far. Indy scored on six of its first seven offensive possessions against the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shouldn\u2019t discount an impressive offensive line, which opens big holes on the ground and gives Jones plenty of time to survey,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-week-7-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL.com&#8217;s Kevin Patra wrote on Monday<\/a>. &#8220;Enough with questioning Indy. This is a legit AFC contender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor was the known commodity here. Jones was a lot more uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>But having a weapon like Taylor has only enhanced Jones&#8217; ability to succeed. So far, it seems like a perfect match.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Taylor can&#8217;t be stopped.\u00a0 The Indianapolis Colts&#8216; running back continued his torrid start to the season on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-227226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}