Daniel Jones gets a new nickname by joining Colts, adding to the Danny Dimes legend

Billy Heyen

Daniel Jones gets a new nickname by joining Colts, adding to the Danny Dimes legend image

Daniel Jones is a starting quarterback in Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season.

Not everyone saw that coming, but it's what the Indianapolis Colts felt they needed, and so Jones will take the field with his new team Sunday afternoon to take on the Miami Dolphins.

When Jones trots onto the field, it likely won't be long until the announcers refer to him by his classic nickname, Danny Dimes.

But there's a new nickname we should be considering, too.

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Daniel Jones' new nickname

This is geographical:

Indiana Jones.

It's perfect, right?

Danny Dimes is a fun nickname, to be sure. It might roll off the tongue a little easier because of the smoothness of all sports names that end in 'y.'

But to take the fact that the Indianapolis Colts are in Indiana, and have it mesh so perfectly with the QB's last name, is just quite classic.

Jones has begun to have this moniker catch on just a bit, but it would likely take some usage in a broadcast call to really go viral and be a big one.

It's never a bad idea to be on the forefront of history, at least when it's for good reason. And calling Daniel Jones 'Indiana' isn't a bad idea at all.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle