Peyton Manning, in full Peyton Williams Manning, (born March 24, 1976, New Orleans, La., U.S.), U.S. gridiron football quarterback. His father, Archie Manning, was a star quarterback with the New Orleans Saints. (Younger brother Eli also became an NFL quarterback.) He played collegiate football at the University of Tennessee and was selected with the first overall pick of the 1998 National Football League (NFL) draft by the Indianapolis Colts. In 2004 he set NFL single-season records of 49 touchdown passes and a 121.1 passer rating (his touchdown mark was broken in 2007, and his passer rating record was surpassed in 2011). Manning led the Colts to a Super Bowl victory in 2007. He won a record five NFL Most Valuable Player awards (2003–04, 2008–09, 2013). In 2012 he was released by the Colts and signed by the Denver Broncos. Two years later he broke Brett Favre’s record for career touchdown passes (508), and in 2015 he broke Favre’s record for career passing yardage (71,838). Manning’s Broncos won a Super Bowl in 2016, and he retired during the following off-season.
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