Colts' Hasselbeck: Luck is 'off-the-charts impressive'

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew batch(12) watches Matt Hasselbeck (8) during organized team activities at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center.(Photo: Brian Spurlock, ground forcestodaySports)

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• Matt Hasselbeck, 37, is entering his first year as the Colts' backup quarterback
• Hasselbeck is level(p)more impressed with Luck in person

INDIANAPOLIS -- Matt Hasselbeck had seen Andrew Luck from afar, and was impressed.

A closer look, though, seemingly has exceeded expectations.

"I knew he was a great player," Hasselbeck tellWednesday after the Indianapolis Colts' latest organized team exerciseat their Northwestside complex. "I obviously saw him play in college and in additionlast year.

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"But I realdidn't know what kind of leader he was in the storage lockerroom. It just comes real natural to him. He's got a great soulof when to pull somebody aside, how to deal with coaches, just how he treats everyone just abouthim.

"He's been off-the-charts impressive that way."

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