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Andrew Luck is back in football full-time, as he’s reportedly rejoined his alma mater as their new general manager.
According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, retired Indianapolis Colts franchise quarterback Andrew Luck is rejoining the Stanford Cardinal men’s football program as its new general manager:
Many collegiate ‘power’ men’s football and basketball programs have already created such sports management/business hybrid roles, and it appears as though the Stanford Cardinal men’s football program has just followed suit here.
The 35-year-old Luck has made occasional appearances at his alma mater as the former 2012 1st overall pick out of Stanford of the Indianapolis Colts has remained pretty connected to the game—even after hanging up the football cleats for good.
It’s not all that hard to believe that Luck will now rejoin the Cardinal with a full-time football role, and it’s not inconceivable that he could be groomed to be a future NFL general manager in time given his well regarded smarts, football intelligence, and leadership—and having played the game at such a high level both collegiately and with the Colts.
Having shockingly retired before his 30th birthday because of lingering injuries and grueling ongoing physical rehabilitation, Luck finished his Colts career having completed 2,000 of 3,290 pass attempts (60.8%) for 23,671 passing yards, 171 passing touchdowns, and 83 interceptions during 86 career starts from 2012-2018. With Indianapolis, he was a 4x NFL Pro Bowler and Comeback Player of the Year and remains arguably a strong franchise Ring of Honor candidate.
Playing for the Cardinal collegiately, Luck was a 2x All-American, 2x Pac 12 Offensive Player of the Year, and 2x First-Team All-Pac 12—and was a considered a generational QB prospect coming out of Stanford before the Colts made him the top overall pick back in 2012.
