Coming up with a way to describe the best running back in football, maybe the best player in football, isn't as easy as you might think.

Most descriptors feel like empty platitudes, words that fall short of the gravity required to explain what we're seeing.

Of course Jonathan Taylor is great. Of course he's remarkable. Of course what he's doing to opposing defenses is preposterous. We all know this.

We all saw what he did in the Colts' 38-14 win over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, with three more touchdowns, punctuated by an 80-yard dash up the near sideline that was as jaw-dropping as it was unsurprising. If that makes sense.

Of course Taylor could and would do something like that 80-yard dash, on which he made safeties Xavier Woods and Amani Hooker – who didn't even take all that

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