Andrew Luck

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Andrew Luck
Andrew Luck vs.  Redskins 2018.jpg
Luck 2018
Position (s):
Quarterback
Jersey number (s):
12
born on September 12, 1989 in Washington, DC
Career information
Active : 2012 - 2018
NFL Draft : 2012 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st
College : Stanford
Teams
Career statistics
Touchdowns - interceptions     171-83
Thrown yards     23,671
Pass attempts     3,290
Passes arrived     2,000
Passes arrived in%     60.8%
Quarterback rating     89.5
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
college

Andrew Austen Luck (* 12. September 1989 in Washington, DC ) is a former American American football poker players at the position of quarterback . He played for the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League (NFL). Andrew Luck is the son of former quarterback Oliver Luck , who played for the Houston Oilers in the NFL from 1982 to 1986 .

Early years

Luck's father, Oliver Luck, was the commissioner of NFL Europe when Luck was a child . That is why Andrew Luck first grew up in Frankfurt am Main , Germany , and attended an international school there. The family later moved to London , UK , before moving back to Texas in the United States after their father's commissioner duties ended .

High school

Luck attended Stratford High School in Houston , Texas . There he threw passes for a space gain of 7,139 yards and 53 touchdowns . He also scored 2,085 yards in the running game . After high school, Luck went to Stanford University , where the later head coach of the San Francisco 49ers , Jim Harbaugh , was a trainer. Harbaugh convinced Luck to go to Stanford and thus decide against numerous other universities, such as Oklahoma State University or the University of Virginia .

college

In his first season (2008) Luck was only the second man behind starting quarterback Tavita Pritchard , who is now (2012) Defensive Assistant at Stanford University. In the 2009 season, his second in college football , he ousted Pritchard as starting quarterback and reached the Sun Bowl with the Stanford Cardinal . However, this was lost against the Oklahoma Sooners 31-27 . In the following season, Luck developed into one of the best college football quarterbacks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and reached the Orange Bowl with his team , which they won 40 to 12 against the Virginia Tech Hokies . Luck was chosen as the player of the game. In his fourth and final season at college, Luck played with the Cardinal in the Fiesta Bowl , which they lost 38 to 41 to the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Still, Andrew Luck was named an Offensive MVP along with Justin Blackmon .

NFL

NFL draft

In the 2012 NFL Draft , as predicted before, Luck was selected first in round one by the Indianapolis Colts . After it was clear they were going to draft Luck, longtime quarterback Peyton Manning was fired from the Colts. Manning was out of action for the entire 2011 season due to a neck injury, after which the Colts could only win two of their 16 games.

Indianapolis Colts

Luck in his NFL debut against the Chicago Bears

On July 19, 2012, Luck signed a four-year contract for $ 22.1 million .

On October 7, the Colts turned a 3:21 halftime score into a 30:27 win against the Green Bay Packers . Previously there was only three other rookie - Starting quarterbacks since 1960, a mid-term backlog of 18 points or more to impress ( John Elway , Denver Broncos against the Indianapolis Colts in 1983, Vince Young , Tennessee Titans against the New York Giants in 2006, Matthew Stafford , Detroit Lions vs. Cleveland Browns 2009). On November 4, 2012, the 9th day of the season, the Indianapolis Colts defeated the Miami Dolphins 23:20. Luck threw passes for 433 yards. With that he broke the NFL record for a rookie quarterback. Cam Newton scored 432 yards the year before. Five weeks before Luck, Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill narrowly missed the new record with 431 yards against the Arizona Cardinals . With the 290 yards that Tannehill reached in the game against the Colts, he and Luck were able to set an NFL record for yards scored by rookie quarterbacks with 723 yards. Ed Rubbert of the Washington Redskins and Shawn Halloran of the St. Louis Cardinals held the record since 1987 with 592 yards. With consistently good performances, Luck led the Colts straight away into the play-offs with a record of 11: 5 wins . His 4,347 yards thrown marked a new NFL rookie record.

In the 2013 season he reached the play-offs again with the Colts. The regular season ended for Luck with 3,822 yards in the passing game , 23 touchdowns , nine interceptions and a quarterback rating of 87.0.

In the 2015 season , Luck was plagued by injuries. Among other things, he suffered an abdominal trauma in the middle of the season , injured his abdominal muscles and kidneys and missed the rest of the season from the eleventh match day. Overall, he was missing in seven games.

On June 29, 2016, Luck signed a six-year contract with the Colts with a salary of $ 140 million. The following season , Andrew Luck threw for 4,240 yards, 31 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. He led the Indianapolis Colts to eight wins and eight losses, with which they missed the play-offs.

Due to an injury to his right throwing shoulder, which had been causing him concern since 2015, Luck decided to have it operated in the off-season . As expected from him and his coaches, he missed the training camp and the preseason after the operation . Despite the rest, Luck's healing process was too slow to be fully recovered and fit to play at the beginning of the 2017 season .

During Luck's absence, his substitute Scott Tolzien and Jacoby Brissett, who had come from the New England Patriots via swap, took over his role as the Colts starter. As the season progressed, it became more and more apparent that Andrew Luck would not make it to the field that year, which is why the Indianapolis Colts put him on the Injured Reserve List on November 2nd . With this step, Andrew Luck's season ended.

With the additional time gained and a few other treatments in Europe, Luck was able to heal his shoulder so much that he was back on the field as a starter in week 1 in 2018 . After a disastrous start, in which they could only win one of the first six games, Andrew Luck and the Colts managed to turn things around under head coach Frank Reich , who was newly appointed at the beginning of the season , and won nine of the remaining ten games. With the win against the Tennessee Titans in week 17, they secured the play-offs.

In August 2019, he announced his resignation at a press conference. He cited the recurring injury problems of recent years as the reason.

NFL career statistics

year team Comp-Att Comp% Yards TD INT QB Rtg
2012 IND 339-627 54.1 4,374 23 18th 76.5
2013 IND 343-570 60.2 3,822 23 9 87.0
2014 IND 380-616 61.7 4,761 40 16 96.5
2015 IND 162-293 55.3 1,881 15th 12 74.9
2016 IND 346-545 63.5 4,240 31 13 96.4
2017 IND Injured reserve
2018 IND 430-639 67.3 4,593 39 15th 98.7
total 2,000-3,290 60.8 23,671 171 83 89.5
Source: NFL.com

Web links

Commons : Andrew Luck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. Andrew Luck keeps his head while all about lose theirs over Peyton Manning. In: The Guardian . September 7, 2014, accessed June 8, 2017 .
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  6. Injury statistics on foxsports.com . Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  7. Andrew Luck Signs Richest Contract In NFL History Worth $ 140 Million. In: Forbes . June 29, 2016, accessed June 8, 2017 .
  8. Andrew Luck has surgery to fix right shoulder, likely to miss off-season workouts. In: ESPN . January 19, 2017, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  9. Colts GM: Andrew Luck will not play Week 1 vs. Rams. In: Nfl .com. September 4, 2017, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  10. ^ Colts To Place Andrew Luck On Injured Reserve. In: Colts .com. November 2, 2017, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  11. ^ Andrew Luck to go to Europe for additional treatment. In: Nfl .com. November 11, 2017, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  12. NFL superstar surprisingly stops. laola1.at, August 25, 2019, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
  13. ^ Andrew Luck Announces His Retirement From The NFL. In: colts.com. August 25, 2019, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
  14. Career statistics on NFL.com. Retrieved January 11, 2019.