Tennessee football: How former Vols fared in NFL wild-card round

To be fair, he did have one punt go into the end zone for a touchback. But throughout the game, Britton Colquitt did a superb job of representing the Colquitt punting tradition and the Tennessee football tradition of having the label of Punter U. To be fair, those two things go hand in hand since all the Colquitts went to UT.

Anyway, Colquitt had six punts on the night, and he averaged 49.7 yards per punt. Only one was pinned inside the 20, but while the offense struggled severely at times, Colquitt continually did his job to make sure he flipped field position, keeping the Minnesota Vikings in the game. He had two punts go for over 50 yards.

One of Colquitt’s key punts was in the second half. From the Minnesota 20, he booted a punt 46 yards that was returned for 23 yards. However, an illegal block called it back from the 34 and sent New Orleans to their own 19-yard line. With Minnesota up 13-10, that was a huge play, and it effectively pinned the Saints inside the 20.

On top of that, Colquitt had two punts hit 49 yards. So he did his job all night, and there’s no way we can ignore just how impressive he was. Now, both Colquitt brothers will be playing in this round of the playoffs after the Vikings’ 26-20 overtime win, and that could be interesting.