Position: Punter Name Craig Colquitt Weight 83 kg | Height 1.85 m | |
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Date of birth: (1954-06-09) June 9, 1954 (age 65) Grandchildren Colston Colquitt, Everly Colquitt, Brinkley Colquitt, Nash Colquitt Similar People Dustin Colquitt, Britton Colquitt, Jon Kolb | ||
High school: Knoxville (TN) South | ||
Craig Colquitt: Football Punter
Joseph Craig Colquitt (born June 9, 1954) is a former American football punter who spent eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers (1978–1981, 1983–1984) and Indianapolis Colts (1987). He was a member of two Super Bowl Champions with the Steelers in 1978 and 1979. He is the father of two current NFL punters, Dustin and Britton Colquitt. His nephew, Jimmy Colquitt, was a punter for the Seattle Seahawks in 1985. All four played college football at the University of Tennessee. Craig was inducted into the Greater Knoxville Hall of Fame July 16, 2009.
In 1979 Craig Colquitt was charged with drunken driving in Knox County, TN. His then fiance Holly Bryant, a Tennessee student was critically injured. Colquitt's Porsche ran off a curve in the rain. He was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.12.