Tyler Reddick’s 2025 campaign couldn’t have been further from the driver he was just one year ago. And the fallout has been impossible to ignore. In 2024, Reddick looked like a star on the rise, a regular-season champion, with two wins at Talladega and Michigan and a berth in the Championship 4 with one of the best average finishes of his career. But that didn’t last long. Fast forward to this season, and the No. 45 team never came close to that form.

Reddick went winless for the first time in the Next-Gen era, struggled to put together complete races, and finished the year with numbers nowhere near the 2024 peak. Moreover, 23XI Racing invested in upgraded operations and the Xfinity Speed Center earlier in the year, which NASCAR coverage framed as a meaningful step to professionalize thei

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