Colts Superstar Crowned Best at His Position: Dominant Performance Earns Top Honors
The Indianapolis Colts 2024 season ended with a win in Week 18 over the Jacksonville Jaguars, which brought them to an uninspiring 8-9 record.
While their season didn’t go as planned, they still saw multiple individuals finish with stellar seasons.
One of which is being recognized as the single best player at his position this year.
Quenton Nelson named to PFF’s First Team All-Pro Offensive Line
Pro Football Focus released their “First Team All-Pro Offensive Line” from the 2024 regular season. Which included Colts star Quenton Nelson as left guard.
Pro Football Focus’ First Team All-Pro Offensive Line
LT: Jordan Mailata
LG: Quenton Nelson
C: Creed Humphrey
RG: Chris Lindstrom
RT: Zach Tom
“Nelson returned to his dominant best in 2024, beating Joe Thuney of the Kansas City Chiefs to this spot. He allowed 20 total pressures in pass protection and earned a 79.7 pass-blocking grade. He also put up an 81.7 grade as a run-blocker.
– PFF’s First Team All-Pro Team
This season, Nelson was credited with allowing three sacks, eight quarterback hits, and 20 pressures after starting all 17 games. To make it even more impressive is knowing that he had both players on both sides of him miss time this year and saw rookies catapulted into the starting lineup sporadically throughout the year.
Even with that Nelson was a rock for the Colts throughout the season. He held a shaky line together and honestly helped elevate the play of multiple young players at a time when they needed it most. There’s a lot of questions surrounding the future of the Colts. So, we are at the point where no one should feel safe on their roster. But in my opinion, the player who should feel the safest is Nelson because you hardly see players of his caliber on the offensive line traded. So unless Nelson requests to be traded, he should remain a foundational piece of this team and their future plans.
