The Indianapolis Colts are going to be contenders for as long as Andrew Luck is their franchise quarterback.
Their seems to be a trickle down effect when an elite passer is involved, with T.Y. Hilton telling ESPN that “Luck is a free agent magnet.”
“Everybody wants to play with Andrew,” Hilton said, per ESPN.com’s Mike Wells. “He’s a free-agent magnet.”
Hilton referred to Frank Gore and Andre Johnson specifically.
“I called T.Y. and said, ‘Tell them I’m interested,’ without even knowing if they were interested in me,” Gore said. “I figured out they weren’t happy with Trent (Richardson) during the season. I had watched from a distance as they continued to get better every year and they had one of the best quarterbacks in the league in Andrew, but I didn’t know a whole lot about the organization.”
Johnson called Luck “the best quarterback he’s likely to ever play with.”
“That was the big thing,” Johnson said in March, per the team’s official website. “I wanted to go somewhere with a stable quarterback. The thing about Andrew, he’s going to be around for a while. He’s a heck of a player. I think he’s a very special player. I can’t wait to get to work with him.”
It’s a loaded Indy squad that will have championship expectations.