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and reception both marked career longs for Luck and Hilton. Luck finished the regular season with 23 touchdown passes and<br />

surpassed Charlie Conerly (22) for the third-most touchdown passes by a rookie quarterback in NFL history. Finished the season<br />

having won 11 games as a starter and joined Ben Roethlisberger (13), Joe Flacco (11), Matt Ryan (11) and Russell Wilson (11) as the<br />

only starting rookie quarterbacks in the Super Bowl era (since 1966) to win at least 11 games. Luck’s 11 victories give him the most by<br />

a quarterback drafted No. 1 overall in his rookie season in NFL history. Sam Bradford held the previous record of seven wins in his<br />

rookie season with the St. Louis Rams in 2010.<br />

• Completed 28-of-54 passes for 288 yards in the team’s Wild Card Playoff loss at Baltimore (1/6) and became the first quarterback<br />

selected No. 1 overall to start a postseason game as a rookie. Compiled the second-most passing yards by a rookie quarterback in a<br />

playoff game, set an NFL record for passing attempts by a rookie quarterback in a single postseason game and set a franchise record<br />

for passing attempts by a quarterback in a postseason game.<br />

COLLEGE:<br />

• Started all 38 games he played in at Stanford, completing 713-of-1,064 passes (67.0 percent) for 9,430 yards, 82 touchdowns and 22<br />

interceptions, as he set school career records for touchdown passes and pass completion percentage.<br />

• Was a two-time Heisman Trophy finalist in 2010 and 2011.<br />

• Named the Maxwell Award Winner for the National Collegiate Player of the Year, the Walter Camp Football Foundation Player of the<br />

Year and the Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year following the 2010 and 2011 seasons. Was also the recipient of the Johnny Unitas<br />

Golden Arm Trophy and named the Capital One Academic All-America of the Year by CoSIDA in 2011.<br />

• Finished his collegiate career at Stanford with 31 victories as a starter, the most ever attained by a Cardinal quarterback. His winning<br />

percentage (81.5) is the best in school history.<br />

• Helped lead Stanford to 29 consecutive weeks in The Associated Press Top 25 poll, including 22 consecutive weeks in the Top 10.<br />

• Quarterbacked three of the most prolific offensive teams in school history, by helping Stanford amass 461 points in 2009 as a freshman,<br />

a school-record 524 points as a sophomore and 561 points as a junior, the seventh-highest total in the nation.<br />

• With 82 career touchdown passes, left school ranked fourth in Pac-12 Conference history. His career-high 37 scoring strikes as a junior<br />

are surpassed by only Southern California’s Matt Leinart (38 in 2003) for the Pac-12 Conference season record.<br />

• Earned the top two spots on the Stanford season record chart with 37 touchdown passes in 2011 and 32 connections in 2010.<br />

• Finished second in school annals behind Steve Stenstrom (10,531 yards; 1991-94) for the most passing yardage for a career, and his<br />

pass attempts (1,064) and completions (713) both placed fourth in school history.<br />

• Holds the second and third positions in the Stanford season record book with passing yardage figures of 3,517 yards as a junior and<br />

3,338 yards as a sophomore, topped by only Steve Stenstrom’s 3,627 yards in 1993.<br />

• Completed 288 attempts in 2011 to rank behind only Stenstrom’s 1993 total of 300 while his 2010 figure of 263 completions rank<br />

fourth on the Cardinal annual record chart.<br />

• The first Cardinal to amass over 10,000 yards in total offense (10,387), establishing a new Stanford record and finishing sixth in Pac-<br />

12 history.<br />

• Accounted for 3,791 total yards in 2010 and 3,667 in 2011 to earn the top two positions on the Cardinal season record list.<br />

• Threw for over 300 yards in eight contests during his collegiate career, the fourth-best total by a Stanford passer.<br />

• Became the first Stanford player to throw for at least four scores more than twice in a season.<br />

• Holds the school career record for quarterbacks with 957 rushing yards. Set the season rushing record for a quarterback in 2010 with<br />

453 yards and also ranks third on the list with 354 yards on the ground in 2009.<br />

PERSONAL:<br />

• Attended Stratford High School in Houston.<br />

• Finished his prep career with 7,139 yards and 53 touchdowns on 488-of-824 passing (.592) while also adding 2,085 rushing yards in<br />

three seasons.<br />

• As a senior, completed 196-of-338 pass attempts for 2,684 yards and 19 touchdowns and rushed for 671 yards. Earned Second Team<br />

All-Texas honors for Class 5A.<br />

• Was an All-America selection by SuperPrep and listed as the nation’s seventh-best quarterback by the publication in 2007.<br />

• Threw for 2,926 yards and 27 touchdowns on 176-of-257 passing and rushed for 714 yards in his junior season.<br />

• Named the 19-5A District MVP and was a Rivals.com All-America pick in 2006.<br />

• Totaled 1,529 yards and seven touchdowns through the air on 116-of-229 passing as a sophomore, adding 700 rushing yards.<br />

• Served as the valedictorian of his high school’s graduation class of 2008.<br />

• Served as a co-spokesperson for the “<strong>COLTS</strong>TRONG, LIBRARYSTRONG” campaign for the Indianapolis Library.<br />

• Hosted an NFL Play 60 event with Indianapolis Public School students.<br />

• Co-hosted the 12th Man Leukemia Jam, an event to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma society.<br />

• Participated in the Colts QB Shopping event with Shepherd Community Center as a volunteer shopper.<br />

• Visited Riley Hospital for Children to spread cheer during the holidays.<br />

• Donated 20 tickets per game to Riley Hospital for Children at IU health, Ronald McDonald House and Habitat for Humanity.<br />

• At Stanford, carried a 3.48 cumulative grade point average as an architectural design major.<br />

• Son of former Houston Oiler and West Virginia quarterback Oliver Luck.<br />

• A native of Houston.

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