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The 2012 NFL draft is a little more than a week away, and two quarterbacks head the field of prospects, Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Baylor’s Robert Griffin III. These two men will be linked throughout their NFL careers, and the great debate over who should go to the Indianapolis Colts is the cover story of the April 23, 2012, issue of Sports Illustrated, on newsstands now.

Senior writer Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) compares this year’s draft with the 1998 draft, when the Colts had the first pick and chose between two exceptionally talented college quarterbacks, Tennessee’s Peyton Manning and Washington State’s Ryan Leaf. King spoke with the man in charge of the ‘98 draft, former Colts president Bill Polian, who drafted Manning (page 46).

Polian, after studying Luck and Griffin, said, “I’d probably pick Luck. When you boil it down you worry a little about running quarterbacks getting hurt. But it’s close. Very close. If Manning and Leaf were apples and oranges, I’d say Luck and Griffin are McIntosh and Red Delicious.”

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