Tyler Goodson

From 6.7 YPC as a 2023 unknown to 2.7 YPC and 9 carries in 10 games of 2025.

An undrafted 2022 Iowa RB, Goodson cycled through GB's practice squad before catching on with the Colts late in 2023. His rookie audition (6 games, 13 car, 87 yds, 6.7 YPC) was efficient enough to earn him a 2024 roster spot.

2024 was the breakout — 14 games, 5 starts, 2 total TDs including a receiving score vs Buffalo. But by 2025 the Colts had drafted Anthony Richardson's RB room around him and Goodson regressed to spot-duty: 9 carries through Week 18.

Why it matters. YPC declining from 6.7 to 2.7 over three seasons on a shrinking workload signals a back who has lost the coaching staff's confidence — the arc ends before it really started.

His 2 career TDs both came in 2024 — one rush vs MIA, one receiving vs BUF — and he hasn't scored in 16 games since.

Goodson's only NFL TDs came in a 4-week window in October 2024. The Miami game was his career-high in carries (14) — Jonathan Taylor was banged up and Goodson got the lead-back rotation for one Sunday.

The receiving TD came against Buffalo — a 2-catch, 9-yard line with one of those yards crossing the goal line. He's gone 16 games without finding the end zone since that Buffalo score (6 remaining 2024 games + all 10 of 2025).

Why it matters. Both career TDs arrived in a single 4-week window, making them feel more like accident than ability — 16 scoreless games since tells you the Colts never trusted him in the red zone.

Rookie YPC was 6.69 — the highest of his career, and he hasn't approached it again.

Goodson's 13 rookie carries went for 87 yards (6.69 YPC) — a small but eye-catching sample. The single highlight: a 15-yard run vs Atlanta on his only carry that week.

In the two real seasons since, 41 combined carries for 177 yards (4.32 YPC) — a perfectly average rate that didn't justify a bigger role on a Colts team with Jonathan Taylor entrenched.

Why it matters. A 6.69 rookie YPC on 13 carries created expectations that two full seasons at 4.32 YPC couldn't sustain — the small sample inflated his ceiling and the Colts stopped expanding his role.

Undrafted in 2022. Now in Year 4, with more total career receptions (19) than rushes per season.

As an Iowa RB who went undrafted in 2022, Goodson outlasting the roster bubble for 4 years is itself the win. His career line across 30 games (2023–2025):

- 54 carries, 264 rushing yards (4.89 YPC) - 19 receptions, 103 receiving yards - 2 total TDs

His per-season rushing average is just 18 carries — meaning his 19 career receptions outpace his typical season's rushing volume. That's a profile shaped more by the receiving role than the rushing role — exactly the niche an undrafted change-of-pace back has to carve out to stick.

Why it matters. An undrafted back surviving four roster cuts signals elite special-teams value and pass-catching utility that outweighs the modest rushing numbers.

Week 7, 2024 vs MIA: 14 carries, 51 yards, 1 TD — Goodson's only game with double-digit rushes AND a score.

With Jonathan Taylor in concussion protocol, Goodson got the Week 7 lead-back workload: 14 carries (his career high), 51 yards, and his only career rushing TD. That single carry total accounts for 26% of his career carries in one Sunday.

He had an 11-carry game vs Pittsburgh in 2023 — but no score. He's never topped 8 carries in any other game. The Colts haven't given him a double-digit carry game since, and his post-Miami workloads dropped sharply: just 5 carries across his next 6 appearances in 2024.

Why it matters. One opportunistic start against a soft Miami run defense defines his entire career ceiling — without Taylor's injury, Goodson may never have had a memorable NFL moment.

2025 line: 10 games, 9 carries, 24 yards — 2.67 YPC. His total 2025 yardage (32) is 15% of his full 2024 production.

The 2025 usage is the lowest of his career. Across Weeks 3 through 18, he's appeared in 10 games and gotten just 9 total rushing attempts (2 rec, 8 yards) — mostly clock-management duty with zero touchdowns.

Goodson's combined 2025 yardage (32 total) is 15% of his 2024 output (214 yards) over the same game count. He's still under contract for 2026 as a fourth-string back, but at 26 and a career line of 264 rushing yards across three seasons, the runway is short.

Why it matters. Going from 214 combined yards in 2024 to 32 in 2025 isn't a slump — it's a near-complete loss of role, suggesting the Colts' 2025 backfield addition made him functionally redundant.