2012 · Round 1 · Pick 1
Indianapolis Colts
Draft / entry source ↗Age at the 2012 draft: 22. Born 1989-09-12. Birth-date source ↗
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Tier 3
Editorial eye-test exception. Not claimed to qualify through an achievement route. Also exempted from the retired-player 100-start floor; he had 86 regular-season starts.
At least 1 AP First- or Second-Team All-Pro selection OR a top-3 AP MVP finish with votes OR 2 Super Bowl starts OR 3 conference-championship starts OR 2 top-5 AP MVP finishes with votes OR a top-5 AP MVP finish with votes plus 2 conference-championship starts.
Evaluation cutoff: end of the 2025 NFL season, including its postseason and awards. The 2026 season is excluded. Future season updates wait until the postseason and awards are complete.
SOURCE-LABELED ENTRY RECORD · CHECKED NOVEMBER 14, 2026
Indianapolis Colts
Draft / entry source ↗Age at the 2012 draft: 22. Born 1989-09-12. Birth-date source ↗
2012 NFL Combine
BMI: 28.5, calculated from this recorded height and weight. BMI is a size descriptor, not a measure of athletic ability or health.
Measurement source ↗Source precision is retained. A pre-draft record is not automatically a verified Combine weigh-in; later NFL roster values are not substituted.
Stanford · 2009-2011
Starts, not games played. The passing-stat scope is disclosed separately below.
67.0% completion · 713/1,064 · 9,430 yards · 82 TD · 22 INT · 3.73:1 TD-to-INT · 8.86 yards/attempt
All games, missed2009SunBowl injury
Stanford prose incorrectly68.7%; raw713/1064=67.0% and Colts signing release correctly67%.
An unusually polished prospect, credited with elevating Stanford and possessing franchise-quarterback potential.
Source context: 2012 pre-Combine analysis by Bucky Brooks; exact publication date not displayed on the retrieved page.
Read the evaluator / report ↗This is a short paraphrase of one source, not a full report, consensus grade or verified prediction. No numerical scouting score is invented.
This update adds the entry record, college totals, starts and source-linked scouting context. It does not claim a complete archive of film grades, pressure statistics, cognitive testing, recruiting history or supporting-cast quality. Missing information remains unknown, never zero.
* Andrew Luck and Trevor Lawrence are explicit eye-test inclusions selected by FindMeMyQB, not qualifiers through the listed achievement routes. Luck also receives an explicit exception to the retired-player minimum of 100 NFL regular-season starts (he finished with 86).
6 ft 4 in · 234 lb · BMI 28.5. 2012 NFL Combine. Status: source verified.
NCAA QB starts: 38. All games, missed2009SunBowl injury