Colts Sign All-Pro Guard Quenton Nelson To Contract Extension
The Colts signed 3-time first-crew All-Pro and 4-time Pro Bowl left shield Quenton Nelson to a settlement extension on Saturday.
The Colts and left shield Quenton Nelson agreed to a settlement extension on Saturday, maintaining the 3-time first crew All-Pro in Indianapolis for the lengthy term.
In incomes first-crew AP All Pro honors in 2018, 2019 and 2020, Nelson have become simplest the 5th participant withinside the ultimate 50 years to be named a primary crew AP All-Pro in every of his first 3 seasons withinside the NFL (becoming a member of Earl Campbell, Keith Jackson, Barry Sanders and Lawrence Taylor).
Nelson earned second-crew AP All-Pro honors in 2021. He changed into voted because the 28th-exceptional participant withinside the NFL for the 2022 season through fellow gamers across the league.
The mauling Nelson additionally changed into named to the AFC Pro Bowl roster in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, turning into the second one participant in Colts records to earn Pro Bowl nods in every of his first 4 seasons (fullback Alan Ameche additionally did so from 1955-1958).
“Everyone is aware of what wonderful capacity he has, however I assume what makes Quenton unique is how clever he performs and the way instinctive he’s,” head instruct Frank Reich stated. “I assume that`s what takes his sport over the top. He’s a bodily dominant participant, however it is his instincts and his intelligence that take him I assume to any other level. During the sport, he is one of these men wherein if he says, ‘Hey, here is what I’m seeing and feeling,’ like over the years, you pass again and study the tape and he is usually proper as a ways as what he is seeing and feeling. So, you believe him.”
Nelson is the 6th member of the Colts’ 2018 draft magnificence to signal a settlement extension, following proper address Braden Smith, linebacker Shaquille Leonard, walking again Nyheim Hines, linebacker Zaire Franklin and shielding lineman Tyquan Lewis.
Since the begin of the 2018 season, simplest 3 different guards have allowed fewer sacks than Nelson (five), even as he is one in every of 8 guards in that span to have a PFF byskip block grade over 80. The Colts are tied for having the fewest sacks allowed (103) withinside the NFL on the grounds that Nelson’s debut in 2018.
And from 2018-2021, simplest guards earned a better PFF run blocking off grade than Nelson (87.8); the Colts have had 3 1,000-backyard rushers in the back of Nelson (Marlon Mack in 2019; Jonathan Taylor in 2020 and 2021).
But Nelson’s effect at the Colts is going properly past his information and accolades. The -time crew captain is one of the key gamers in putting the tone for what the Colts’ offense has desired to be on the grounds that he arrived in 2018.
“Quenton, he’s a generational participant that – I’m sorry, I see (John) Hannah and I see him of the ultimate hundred years. I imply it is how appropriate Quenton is,” Colts proprietor and CEO Jim Irsay stated in 2021. “As a ways as management and the kind of crew man he’s, it is off the charts. He is why the Colts are a bodily crew. When you are coming to play us, you’re coming to play the Big Q and he’s the man that represents us obtainable and anybody in this roster is aware of.”
