Peyton Manning was a football player.
The 1998 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players . Peyton Manning . During his tenure as starting quarterback , Manning led the team to eight division championships , two AFC championships , and one Super Bowl title , the franchise 's first in over three decades , as well as their first since relocating to Indianapolis . A quarterback ( commonly abbreviated to QB ) is a position in American and Canadian football .