Colts Intend To Use No. 1 NFL Draft Pick To Select A Quarterback

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay intends to use the No. 1 overall pick in this spring’s NFL draft to select a quarterback, regardless of Peyton Manning’s health, according to ESPN.

“With Griffin and Luck and the way it’s shaping up at the top of the draft – could very likely go one and two like with Peyton and Ryan Leaf,” Irsay said in an interview with ESPN’s Hannah Storm. “It’s most likely one of those quarterbacks that you really feel is the best player in the draft, and where we’re at moving forward you can’t pass that up. I don’t think anyone would expect that.”

Until now there had been rampant speculation about whether the Colts would draft a quarterback, most notably Stanford’s Andrew Luck, in this spring’s draft.