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INDIANAPOLIS: Clyde Christensen activated the tiny camera and microphone mounted on Andrew Luck’s helmet during the rookie minicamp of the Indianapolis Colts in the spring, just a few practices into the player’s professional career.
After the scouting combine, the Colts quarterbacks coach, Chris Christensen, received his first impression of Luck’s speed of learning when the team gave him the playbook section including the five-step throwing game. The top draft pick, Luck, contacted the Colts by the time he got off his airplane in California and returned to Stanford University.
Okay, well, what comes next? Coaches, who assumed that was a few weeks’ work, were shocked by what he said.
The purpose of the camera Christensen activated at the minicamp was to help him better understand where his quarterback was looking prior to a pass. Luck’s camera was not very functional. However, the player—who one college football official referred to as “a human computer”—would handle his move to the NFL differently, as heard over the microphone.
Christensen stated, “You give him the play; you’re talking to him; he’s asking questions and figuring out the call.” As he approaches the line of scrimmage, he acts nearly exactly like Rain Man—repeating everything and chatting to himself about who is responsible for what.
“He’s just a different guy when he walks into the huddle all of a sudden. From asking, “Is that the one?” to saying, “Okay, this is it,” You introduce someone as though you’ve known them for a long time even when you’re only getting to know them for the first time. He put on a convincing front, so the group wouldn’t know if he was doubtful.
