When Jim Irsay and Ryan Grigson handed in Andrew Luck’s name for the top overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, a new era started in Indianapolis. It was one of the most bittersweet and numb feelings entire generation of Colts fans could ever experience. They were watching their hero leave to play for another franchise.
The promise?
A prospect who was widely seen as the top player at his position to enter the draft since Peyton Manning in 1998 or even John Elway before him. Speaking of Elway, he spurned the Colts when they selected him first overall in the 1983 NFL Draft, and ended up leading the Denver Broncos to two Super Bowl victories.