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Five Breakout Offenses No One's Talking About (and Who to Draft From Them)

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

August 12, 2026

People forget that the Colts led one of the best offenses in NFL history for the first half of last season. If Indiana Jones can happen, anything can happen.
Speakers: Danny Heifetz, Craig Horlbeck, Danny Kelly

Topics: Fantasy Sports, Sports

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Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck. And today we are going to go through and find out who is this year's Colts, aka the shocking team that nobody really sees coming. But we're going to see them coming, maybe. But before we do that, we're going to take a quick break.
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**Danny Kelly** (2:40)
This year's Colts complementary, not derogatory.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:43)
Right, first half of the year, Colts.

**Danny Kelly** (2:46)
This year's Colts, aka the team that no one really sees coming in a fantasy vein.
You know, a bunch of high scoring games, high scoring star players, and basically league winning type players on the team. Jonathan Taylor last year, at least until the wheels fell off, was like that. I mean, do you guys remember what he was scoring? Like three touchdowns every game?

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:05)
He had three games with three different touchdowns.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:07)
He had four, and three in one month. So three touchdowns is a hat trick. He had a hat trick inside of a hat. A hat trick of hat tricks in a month.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:14)
Tyler Warren was going crazy. Alex Pierce was doing well. Everybody, Daniel Jones was absolutely cooking. The entire offense came out of nowhere. And the goal of today is to find maybe are there one or two offenses this year that we think could do what the Colts did last year and be filled with fantasy upsets.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:29)
And that is like one of the bigger, if you can identify those teams before the season, it is like one of the simplest ways to just just kind of be dominant is all the players are on a great offense. And just to put a button on just how good the Colts were, because again, the first half of the season, so funny, look at these stats, because I can't say to be wrong.
The Colts halfway through the season, so eight weeks, halfway through the season, Colts are the best record in the NFL, seven and one. They led the league in all the counting stats, so yards, points, touchdowns, but also all the advanced stats. So expected points added per play and expected points added total. And my favorite, which is just if you look at like total EPA, which is like expected points added in the 21st century. So since 2000, the best teams ever are the 2007 Patriots who went 16 and

**Danny Kelly** (4:14)
The best revolutionized offensive football.

**Danny Heifetz** (4:17)
Yep, literally unbeaten. And then the...

**Craig Horlbeck** (4:21)
With Tom Brady and Randy Moss.

**Danny Kelly** (4:25)
And Wes Welker.

**Danny Heifetz** (4:26)
Then you have...
Don't forget, Dante Stalworth. Don't forget. And then you have Peyton Manning's best three seasons ever, which include not once, but twice breaking the touchdown passes record, like two different Peyton Manning touchdown passing records. The 2000 Rams Greatest Show on Turf, the Chiefs in 2018 when Patrick Holmes threw 50 touchdown passes. So three people on this list threw 50 touchdown passes. And then it was the 2025 Colts.

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