Aaron Rodgers is the Amazon of the NFL — 7 quarterbacks and their tech company equivalents (AAPL, APRN, TSLA, TWTR, BABA, AMZN, FB)

Andrew Luck is Tesla

Business Insider / Anaele Pelisson

Like Tesla, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck has been granted an otherworldly high valuation without much in the way of actual results to back it up.

Luck has turned middling success on the field into a six-year, $139 million contract, benefiting greatly from his reputation as a genius. Tesla has amassed a market value of $58 billion at least partially because of investor confidence in its genius founder and CEO, Elon Musk, despite not turning a profit and burning through cash.

Further, while Luck’s unfulfilled potential as a passer has been largely attributed to his weak supporting cast, Musk — and by extension Tesla — is being hampered by production challenges.

This is not to say Luck, nor Tesla, is undeserving. Many NFL general managers would trade a kidney to have Luck line up under center, while Wall Street analysts are more bullish than not on Tesla.

And did I mention they share a Stanford pedigree? (Though Musk abandoned his Ph.D. studies after just two days, while Luck graduated with an architecture degree and an Orange Bowl victory.)