Daniel Jones in the MVP mix? Kirk Cousins to the Bengals? Overreacting to Week 3

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Sure, backmost Daniel Jones looked bully successful the Colts' season-opening win. But their Week 1 hostile was the Dolphins, and statement seems to beryllium that they're not precise good. So we noticed, but we tried not to overreact.

The Week 2 victory against the Broncos, who are expected to person a large defense, seemed a small much worthy of our attention. But Denver inactive had the crippled won if not for a dumb punishment that gave the Colts a 2nd accidental astatine the game-winning tract goal.

But present Jones has done it 3 weeks successful a row, starring Indianapolis to a 41-20 win implicit the Titans. So helium gets to pb the Week 3 Overreactions column, wherever we benignant done the play overreactions to effort and fig retired which ones mightiness clasp up and which ones are mirages.

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Daniel Jones is going to beryllium successful the MVP conversation

Through the archetypal 2 weeks, Jones -- the reclamation-project backmost the Colts signed to vie with erstwhile No. 4 wide draught prime Anthony Richardson Sr. for their starting backmost occupation -- ranked 2nd successful the NFL successful passing yards, archetypal successful yards per attempt, sixth successful Total QBR and had 3 rushing touchdowns connected apical of each that. He kept it rolling, completing a chill 18 of 25 passes for 228 yards successful a much Jonathan Taylor-centric lopsided triumph implicit the Titans.

Jones looks similar a antithetic guy. After going 7-for-9 for 130 yards and a touchdown connected passes thrown astatine slightest 10 yards downfield connected Sunday, he's present completing 65% of specified throws this season. He completed 50% of them successful his archetypal six seasons successful the league. Sunday's triumph improved Indy's grounds to 3-0 -- a afloat 3 games up of the reeling two-time defending AFC South champion Texans (though lone 1 crippled up of the plucky 2-1 Jaguars).

The Colts person punted erstwhile truthful acold this season. They've scored connected 77% of their violative possessions -- the highest specified people for immoderate squad successful its archetypal 3 games implicit the past 45 seasons. If the Colts extremity up winning their part -- thing they haven't done since 2014, erstwhile Chuck Pagano was their manager and Andrew Luck was their backmost -- and Jones keeps playing similar this successful manager Shane Steichen's offense, this isn't the past clip you're going to perceive idiosyncratic speech astir Jones' M...