Of all former Tennessee football players on here, Dustin Colquitt was a feature player on the worst play of the weekend. He had a punt that was blocked and run into the end zone for a score, which at the time spotted the Houston Texans with a 14-0 lead. They would go on to extend that to a 24-0 lead before KC came back.
Lost on all that, though, is the fact that Colquitt had a superb punting night. The block was not his fault, as Houston came right through the middle to do it. What can you expect a punter to do when he’s looking downfield and expecting his interior blocking to give him enough time to get it off? There is obviously nothing he can do.
Anyway, Colquitt still had three punts for 123 yards, averaging 41 yards a punt. Of those, two pinned Houston inside the 20-yard line. Not that it mattered, but his final one, with KC up already 51-31, went 50 yards to pin the Texans inside the 10-yard line.
Simply put, Colquitt did his job all game, even with that block. He also was the holder on Harrison Butker’s only made field goal, and Butker’s one missed extra point was not his fault, anymore than the block was. Still, those two negative plays kept him at No. 3 by default because we had to separate these guys somehow.