On Wednesday, the NFL Gamers Affiliation released its third annual report cards for the league’s 32 groups. Practically 1,700 gamers shared with their union details about their crew’s services, therapy of their households and extra.
Listed below are 4 takeaways from the AFC South.
Houston Texans: Success begins on the high
The Texans have been one of many league’s nice turnaround tales beneath head coach DeMeco Ryans, who inherited a crew with 11 wins in three seasons and has led it to the divisional spherical of the playoffs two years in a row.
The report card exhibits Ryans’ impression. Gamers gave the third-year Texans coach an A, with 97 % of gamers saying they “really feel … Ryans is environment friendly with their time, a rank of 9 out of 32.”
Whereas he ranked No. 17 in gamers’ emotions on how receptive he was “to locker room suggestions on the crew’s wants,” Ryans’ resolution to half with offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik and rent former Rams passing sport coordinator Nick Caley may very well be a step in the fitting course.
Proprietor Cal McNair ranked within the high 10 in three metrics: perceived willingness to spend money on services, contribution to crew tradition and dedication to constructing a aggressive crew.
Indianapolis Colts: The report playing cards are working … slowly
The Colts acquired a big enhance within the grading of their therapy of households. Final 12 months, the crew acquired a D, which improved to a B-minus on its 2025 report card.
The advance stemmed from the Colts establishing a game-day daycare for the primary time, which irked gamers of their earlier evaluations.
“The gamers’ high request is for the crew to supply daycare on gameday like most different groups do throughout the League,” wrote the NFLPA in its 2024 Colts report card.
Indianapolis’ enchancment on this space exhibits that the value determinations have produced their supposed outcomes. Groups are largely taking the grades to coronary heart and addressing their faults. Now, if solely Colts proprietor Jim Irsay would do one thing in regards to the crew’s meals/cafeteria and journey preparations, which have consistently received poor grades from gamers.
Jacksonville Jaguars: Workforce is not simply declining on the sphere
The Jaguars’ win whole declined by 5 video games in 2024. Their report card additionally confirmed a decline, with the group dropping in eight of the 11 classes from 2024 and solely bettering in a single, receiving a B-plus in crew journey, up from 2024’s B.
The group acquired its harshest evaluation in gamers’ analysis of its therapy of households.
“Gamers imagine that many modifications have to be made,” wrote the NFLPA. “They want extra entry to sideline passes to allow them to see their households pregame. Throughout the sport, gamers need a household room so their households can escape the warmth and permit moms to alter/nurse infants.”
The survey discovered Jacksonville is one among 10 groups that do not present a household room.
Tennessee Titans: Listing of Household Affairs the crew’s 2024 MVP
The Titans did not get a lot proper final offseason. Regardless of doling out free-agent contracts price $367.8 million, Tennessee was the league’s worst crew, ending with its fewest wins (three) since 2015.
However the one factor the Titans aced was hiring Ansley Moore as their Director of Participant and Household Affairs.
“The gamers are very complimentary,” the NFLPA wrote earlier than noting the crew’s exceptional enchancment within the grading of its therapy of households from a D-plus for the 2023 season to a B-plus for final season.
The Titans noticed firsthand what a distinction one particular person could make. Perhaps they will discover somebody simply as precious with the No. 1 choose in April’s draft.
