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* 2x ''[[Associated Press|AP]]'' [[National Football League Most Valuable Player Award|NFL MVP]] (2003-2004)
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* [[All-Iron Award]] (2004)
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Peyton Manning
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Peyton Manning at the 2006 Pro Bowl
Indianapolis Colts
Career information
College:Tennessee
NFL draft:1998 / round: 1 / pick: 1
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Stats at Pro Football Reference Edit this at Wikidata

Peyton Williams Manning (born March 24, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football quarterback who plays for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Colts with the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee.

He is the son of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning and brother of current New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning.

Largely due to his consistent statistical performance throughout his career, Manning is widely regarded as one of the best quarterbacks of his era. Manning has established several NFL records, including: most touchdown passes in a single season (49 in 2004),[1] most consecutive seasons with over 4,000 yards passing (1999-2004),[2] and most seasons with 4,000 or more yards passing in a career (7).[3] Manning is second on the list for highest career passer rating, behind only the retired Steve Young.[4] Manning is also the all-time career yard and touchdown passing leader for the Colts franchise, having passed Johnny Unitas's mark.[5]

Early years

Manning was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to Archie and Olivia Manning. The second oldest of the family's three boys, his family has a rich history in football. His father played for 13-seasons in the NFL, primarily for the New Orleans Saints; his younger brother is currently with the New York Giants; and, his older brother attended the University of Mississippi on an athletic scholarship.

At Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans, Manning was the team's principal starter for three consecutive seasons. He finished his high school career with 7,207 passing yards and 92 touchdowns. During that time, his team won 34 games and lost just five.[6]

As a sophomore, Manning went 9-1 in the regular season and advanced all the way to the state semifinals before losing to Haynesville. The finish tied Isidore Newman's best ever.[7] During his junior year, Manning's team went 11-2 and advanced to the state quarterfinals, with Manning throwing 30 touchdown passes.[8] As a senior, Isidore Newman had a 10-0 regular season. Manning passed for over 2,500 yards and 39 touchdowns and won numerous awards, including the Gatorade High School Player of the Year award for the state of Louisiana[9]. After a win in the first round of the play-offs, Manning and Isidore Newman lost to Northeast High School, 39-28, despite Manning throwing for 395 yards and 3 touchdowns.[7]

Cooper Manning, Manning's older brother, was a wide receiver on the team when Manning was a sophomore. The elder Manning was recruited heavily by many colleges. Eventually, he went on to attend the University of Mississippi where Archie Manning attended college.

College career

Because of his father's legacy at Ole Miss, Manning stunned many when he chose to attend and play for the University of Tennessee. He became Tennessee's all-time leading passer with 11,201 yards, 863 completions and 89 touchdowns, while compiling a 39-6 record as a starter, setting an SEC record for career wins (although Georgia's David Greene would set a new record of 42 wins in 2005). In his college career, he threw only 33 interceptions in 1,381 attempts, an NCAA record for best all-time interception percentage. He was 3-1 in his four bowl appearances. He completed his degree in three years, a BA in speech communication with a 3.61 GPA and Phi Beta Kappa honors, and was projected to be the top overall pick in the NFL Draft but returned to Tennessee for his senior year. In his senior season, Manning threw for 3,819 yards and 36 touchdowns, led the Vols to the SEC title and finished second in 1997 Heisman Trophy voting to the University of Michigan's Charles Woodson. Manning received the 1997 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. In 2005, Tennessee retired Manning's number (#16),[10] making him only the 3rd Tennessee player to have his number retired while still living. One of the streets leading to Neyland Stadium has been re-named Peyton Manning Pass.

Scandal

In 1996, while still quarterback at the University of Tennessee, Manning dropped his pants while being treated by assistant athletic trainer Jamie Ann Naughright. After an investigation, the university concluded the incident was a "mooning" gone awry and not sexual in nature, and Manning was disciplined and required to apologize in writing to Naughright.[11] The university chose to settle Naughright's sexual harassment claims (which included the Manning incident) for $300,000.[12] In 2003, Manning settled a 2002 lawsuit filed by Naughright for $300,000. In the suit Naughright alleged that "Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy", a book written by Manning, his father and author John Underwood, defamed her.[13]

Professional career

Early career

Manning was selected first overall in the 1998 draft by the Indianapolis Colts. He has started every game in his NFL career, missing only one snap due to injury despite sustaining injuries as serious as a broken jaw inflicted by defensive end Lorenzo Bromell.[14] He was the NFL co-MVP in 2003,[15] sharing the honor with then Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair. In 2004, Manning became the highest-paid player in NFL history at the time, signing a $99.2m contract for seven years with a $34.5m signing bonus, an average of $14.17m annually. Under the contract, Manning is also eligible to earn an extra $19m in incentives.[16]

In his rookie season, Manning passed for 3,739 yards with 26 touchdowns and 28 interceptions. He set five different NFL rookie records, including most touchdown passes in a season and was named to the NFL All-Rookie First Team. The Colts finished 3-13.[17]

Prior to the beginning of the 1999 season, the Colts selected running back Edgerrin James during the NFL draft. Manning and James led the team to a 13-3 record, an AFC East championship, and the playoffs. Manning passed for over 4,000 yards and 26 touchdown passes and the team earned a first round bye as the AFC's second seed, behind Jacksonville.[18] In the playoffs the Colts fell 19-16 to the Super Bowl bound Tennessee Titans. Manning completed 19 of 43 passes with no touchdowns.[19]

Manning married his college girlfriend, Ashley Thompson, on March 17, 2001.[20]

Recent years

Manning threw for 4,267 yards and 29 touchdowns[3] during the 2003 regular season, leading his team to a 12-4 record despite having a defense that ranked 20th in the NFL in points allowed (336).[21] In the wild card playoff round Manning and the Colts defeated the Denver Broncos 41-10, Manning's first playoff win after first round losses in the 3 previous seasons. He completed 22 of 26 passes for 377 yards and 5 touchdowns in the game, earning him a perfect 158.3 Passer Rating. In the divisional playoffs, Manning led the Colts to a 38-31 win over the Kansas City Chiefs[22] in the first puntless game in NFL playoff history,[23] throwing for 304 yards and 3 touchdowns, and earning a 138.8 passer rating.[24] In the AFC title game Manning was shut down by the New England Patriots defense and posted the third lowest passer rating of his career at 35.5.[19] The Patriots defense intercepted Manning four times (three of them by Ty Law) as the Colts lost the game 24-14.[25]

In 2004, Manning threw for 4,557 yards, had a 121.1 quarterback rating,[3] and 49 touchdowns. He surpassed the record for TD passes in a season (48) held by Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino for two decades[1] and the previous single-season quarterback rating of 112.8 set by Hall of Fame San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young. Manning led the Colts to a 12-4 record and their second consecutive AFC South division title. He was selected as the 2004 NFL MVP drawing 49 of 50 votes (Michael Vick received one vote) and was named NFL Offensive Player of the Year. The Colts' 2004 season ended in Foxborough for a second straight year with a 20-3 loss in the AFC Divisional Playoff game against New England when Manning played his worst game of the year, recording a season-low passer rating of 69.3 and posting a season-low 3 points of offense. It was Manning's seventh consecutive loss to the Patriots in Foxborough, MA. The Colts' three points were their lowest single game point total since their opening game of the 2003 season.[26]

AFC quarterback Peyton Manning, during the 2006 Pro Bowl in Hawaii

In 2005 the Colts had a greatly improved defense over that of recent years. In week 15, the Colts had a perfect 13-0 record, and had secured the AFC South, home field advantage throughout the playoffs, and a first round bye. Nevertheless, Tony Dungy made the decision to play all of his regular starters against the Chargers in the hopes of keeping his team sharp for the playoffs. However, the Colts played a sub-par game against the Chargers and fell short of the win; the score was 26-17.[27] Manning finished the season with 3,747 passing yards, the first time he had thrown for under 4,000 yards since his rookie season of 1998, largely due to the fact that Manning sat out much of the final two games with the top AFC seed clinched.[3]

On January 15, 2006, the Pittsburgh Steelers visited the RCA Dome for the second AFC divisional playoff game of the 2005 season. The Steelers gained a 14-3 lead by halftime. In the 4th quarter with only a few minutes left in the game, Manning threw what looked to be the game-ending interception to Troy Polamalu, but the interception was overturned (a call the NFL later admitted was incorrect).[28] The Colts went on to score, and were able to get the ball back down three points near the end of the game. On 4th down Manning was sacked near his own goal line, and the game seemed to be over as the Steelers were one yard from a touchdown. On the play the ball was handed off to Jerome Bettis who fumbled the ball. It was picked up by Colts defender Nick Harper who appeared to have a clear path down the sideline for what might have been the game-winning score. However, he cut to the center of the field where Steelers' quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was running backwards hoping to get into position to tackle. He managed to dive in front of Harper and tackle him by the leg, saving a touchdown. The Colts drove down the field from their own 42 yard line to the Steelers 27 yard line, before Mike Vanderjagt missed a field goal as time ran out. (It was the first time a 6th seeded team would eventually go on to win the Super Bowl when the Steelers won Super Bowl XL.)

Peyton came in second in voting for the 2005 MVP award to Shaun Alexander (19 to 13, out of 50 voters), ending his streak at two years. He was named the 2005 winner of the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award and nominated for the 2005 FedEx Air Player of the Year Award, along with Tom Brady and Carson Palmer, the winner of the award. The two runners up were both also quarterbacks for the Pro Bowl that year.

Super Bowl season

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Manning and the 2006 Colts visit President George W. Bush at the White House.

The Colts started 9-0 and finished the season with a 12-4 record earning the third seed in the playoffs. Manning threw for 31 touchdowns, 4,397 yards, and led the NFL with a 101.0 quarterback rating. He threw 9 interceptions during the season. Manning is the second quarterback in league history (the other being Donovan McNabb) to throw 30 touchdowns and fewer than 10 interceptions in a single season.

Manning's Colts defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the playoffs on January 6 by the score of 23-8. On Saturday, January 13, 2007, the Colts won their Divisional Playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens by the score of 15-6. All of the Colts' points were scored by Adam Vinatieri, whose 5 field goals tied an NFL record. The Colts played the New England Patriots on Sunday, January 21, 2007 for the AFC Championship. The Colts (#3 seed) had home field advantage because of a regular season victory over the Patriots (tiebreaker rule). In the AFC Championship game, the Colts trailed 21-3 before coming back to defeat the Patriots for the title by a score of 38-34. In the fourth quarter, Manning led a 7-play, 80-yard touchdown drive to take the lead with 1:00 left in the game and finished with 349 yards, one passing touchdown, one rushing touchdown, and an interception. The 18-point comeback was the largest deficit ever overcome in a conference championship (NFL record). The win also marked the third straight Colts' victory over the Patriots.

On February 4, Manning led the Colts to a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI (247 passing yards on 25 of 38 passes; 1 TD pass and 1 INT) and was voted the Super Bowl MVP. He finished the post-season with 1,034 yards, 3 touchdowns, 7 interceptions, a 63.3% completion percentage, and a 70.5 QB rating. [29] Manning, who had been criticized for failing to win big games, exorcised his big-game demons with the win. "In years' past when our team's come up short, it's been disappointing," he told reporters. "Somehow we found a way to have learned from some of those losses and we've been a better team because of it."[30] Following the Super Bowl win, Manning agreed to restructure his contract to save the Colts $8.2 million in salary cap space.[31]

2007 season

Manning's Colts opened the NFL season with a Thursday-night match against the New Orleans Saints. Tied at 10 at the half, Manning threw two second-half touchdowns to help the Colts to a 41-10 victory.[32]. In Week 2, the Colts opened division play against Tennessee. Manning passed for over 300 yards as the Colts managed to survive a late comeback attempt, winning 22-20.[33]. After a win against Houston[34], a four-touchdown performance against Denver[35], and a win against Tampa Bay[36], Manning and the Colts headed into their bye week with a perfect 5-0 record. Following the bye, the Colts avenged a 44-17 blowout last year by beating the Jaguars, 29-7, advancing to 3-0 in-conference[37]. In Week 8, Manning passed for 2 touchdowns, beating the Panthers, 31-7. The 2 touchdown passes gave Manning 288 in his career, passing Unitas's 287 and making him the Colts' all-time touchdown passing leader.[38] In a Week 9 match-up, against the rival Patriots, Manning and Addai helped the Colts to a 13-7 half-time lead, and an early fourth quarter touchdown upped the lead to 20-10. However, Brady led the Patriots to two late touchdowns, to hand Manning his first loss of the season, 24-20. Manning finished the game 16/27, with 225 yards passing, including 1 passing touchdown, as well as an interception. He also had a rushing touchdown.[39] Manning did not bounce back from the loss well. Against the San Diego Chargers he threw for a career-worst and franchise-record 6 interceptions. Despite this, he was able to rally the Colts from a 23-0 deficit to 23-21, and gave Adam Vinatieri an opportunity to take the lead with a 29-yard field goal. Vinatieri's miss sunk the Colts to 7-2. Along with 6 interceptions, Manning finished the day with 2 TD's, allowing him to pass Johnny Unitas's all-time touchdown mark.[40] Manning did not play particularly well against the Kansas City Chiefs either, throwing 1 interception and no touchdowns. However, he managed to lead the Colts on a late drive for a game-winning field goal, rushing for two yards on 4th and 1 in the process. Manning finished the game 16/32 for 163, allowing him to overtake 40,000 passing yards in his career, the 11th quarterback to do so, and the second fastest, one game slower than Steve Young.[41] The victory was Manning's 100th; the 10th player to do so on the list of most wins by a starting quarterback (NFL).[42] Down 10-0 early on Thanksgiving Day, Manning rallied the Colts with three second quarter touchdowns on the way to a 31-13 victory. Manning continued to move up the charts, as he passed Johnny Unitas's all-time passing yards marking to move into 10th place, and 1st place for the Colts franchise. His touchdown passes allowed him to move into sole ownership of the 5th place spot.[43] Manning threw for 4 TDs in a 28-25 victory over Jacksonville, and moved up to 9th place in career passing yards, passing Joe Montana.[44] The next week he threw for another 4 TDs, in a 44-20 win against Baltimore. The 4 touchdowns allowed him to move passed the 300 mark, passing John Elway in the process and allowing him to move into the 4th place spot. The win was Manning's 103rd, putting him in sole possession of 8th place.[45] On week 15, trailing 14-13, Manning led the Colts on a game-winning touchdown drive to beat the Oakland Raiders, 21-14. The win clinched a first-round bye, the Colts' fifth straight AFC South title, and their fifth straight 12-win season, an NFL record. During the game, Manning passed Joe Montana on the NFL's career completions list, moving up to eighth place.[46]

Career awards and Records

Major High School Awards

  • 1992 Louisiana Class 2A MVP[7]
  • 1993 Gatorade Circle of Champions Award[7]
  • 1993 Atlanta TD Club's Bobby Dodd Award[7]
  • 1993 New Orleans Quarterback Club Player of the Year[7]
  • 1993 Columbus, Ohio Touchdown Club Offensive Player of the Year[7]
  • 1993 Gatorade High School Player of the Year (Louisiana) [9]
  • 1993 Louisiana Class 2A MVP[7]

College Awards

NFL awards

College records

Tennessee records

SEC records

  • Ratio of Interceptions to Attempts in a Season (Minimum 300 Attempts): 1:95 in 1995[62]
  • Highest completion percentage: 62.49%[59]
  • Lowest career interception percentage: 2.39%[59]
  • Most career 300+ yard games: 18[59]

NFL records

Career (individual)

Manning holds a number of individual career records:

  • Seasons with 4,000+ yards: 7, 1999–2004, 2006[63]
  • Consecutive seasons with 4,000+ yards: 6, from 1999–2004[2]
  • Consecutive seasons with 25+ TD passes: 10, from 1998-2007 (current)[63]
  • Games with perfect passer rating: 4 (includes 1 playoff game; most perfect games of any QB since passer rating was created by the NFL in 1973)[64]
  • He has started every NFL game since he was a rookie, (currently 157 consecutive games) which is the longest career-opening streak for a quarterback. His streak is also the second-longest starting streak of all time behind Brett Favre on the list of most consecutive starts by a quarterback (NFL).[65]
  • Set NFL record for most completions in a single post-season (97) during the 2006/2007 post-season.

Rookie records

  • Most passes attempted in a season: 575[66]
  • Most passes completed in a season: 326[67]
  • Most yards gained in a season: 3,739[67]
  • Most Touchdown Passes in a season: 26[67]
  • Most Consecutive games with a Touchdown: 13[66]

2004 season

During the 2004 season Manning broke several single season passing records, including:

  • Touchdowns: 49 (previously held by Dan Marino with 48 in 1984)[1]
  • Passer rating: 121.1 (previously held by Steve Young with 112.8 in 1994)[67]
  • Consecutive games with at least 4 TD passes: 5 (previously held by Marino with 4 TDs in 4 consecutive games in 1984)[67]
  • 5 TD passes in 4 different games in less than 12 months (previously held by Marino)
  • First QB to throw 10+ TD passes to each of 3 different receivers in 1 season (14, Marvin Harrison; 12, Reggie Wayne; 10, Brandon Stokley). The Colts are the only team ever to have 3 WRs with 10+ TDs in 1 season. In addition, all three receivers had over 1,000 yards (also an NFL record).

With Marvin Harrison

Manning and Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison hold a number of QB-WR tandem records:

Colts Franchise Records

  • Passing attempts (Season): 591 (2002)[51]
  • Passing attempts (Rookie): 575 (1998)[51]
  • Most 40+ attempt games (Career): 34[51]
  • Most completions (Career): 3,426[51]
  • Most completions (Season): 392 (2002)[51]
  • Most completions (Rookie): 326 (1998)[51]
  • Most completions (Game): 37 (11/03/02 vs. Tennessee; tied with Jeff George)[51]
  • Most completions (Rookie-game): 30 (11//01/98 vs. New England)[51]
  • Most consecutive completions: 17 (09/25/05-10/02/05 vs. Cleveland/Tennessee; tied with Bert Jones)[51]
  • Most interceptions thrown (Game): 6 (11/11/07 vs. San Diego)[40]
  • Most games with 20+ completions (Career): 103[51]
  • Most consecutive games with 20+ completions: 12 (Games 3-14, 2003)[51]
  • Highest completion percentage (Career): 64.0%[51]
  • Highest completion percentage (Season): 67.4% (2004)[51]
  • Highest completion percentage (Rookie season): 56.7% (1998)[51]
  • Most passing yards (Career): 41,220[43]
  • Most passing yards (Season): 4,557 (2004)[51]
  • Most passing yards (Rookie season): 3,739 (1998)[51]
  • Most passing yards (Game): 472 (10/31/04 vs. Kansas City)[51]
  • Most 300+ yard games (Career): 40[51]
  • Most 300+ yard games (Season): 6 (2004 and 2006)[51]
  • Most 300+ yard games (Rookie season): 4 (1998)[51]
  • Most consecutive 300+ yard games: 3 (Games 6-8, 2006; tied with Johnny Unitas)[51]
  • Most touchdowns (Season): 49 (2004)[51]
  • Most touchdowns (Rookie season): 26 (1998)[51]
  • Most touchdowns (Game): 6 (09/28/03 vs. New Orleans and 11/25/04 vs. Detroit)[51]
  • Most touchdowns (Rookie game): 3 (4 times; tied with Johnny Unitas and Jeff George)[51]
  • Most touchdowns (Career): 303[5]
  • Most games with a touchdown (Season): 15 (5 times)[51]
  • Most games with a touchdown (Rookie season): 15 (1998)[51]
  • Most consecutive games with a touchdown (Rookie season): 13 (Games 4-16, 1998)[51]
  • Most consecutive games with multiple touchdowns: 13 (Games 1-13, 2004)[51]
  • Highest touchdown percentage (Career): 5.62% (tied with Johnny Unitas)[51]
  • Highest touchdown percentage (Season): 9.86% (2004)[51]
  • Highest touchdown percentage (Game): 24.00% (09/28/03 vs. New Orleans)[51]
  • Highest passer rating (Career): 94.4[51]
  • Highest passer rating (Season): 121.1 (2004)[51]

NFL career statistics

All statistics from Pro Football Reference[3] and CBS Sportsline[71]

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