INDIANAPOLIS — Jim Harbaugh didn’t succeed in luring Robert Griffin III to Stanford four years ago, but it turns out he did achieve a win, of sorts, by even recruiting the Heisman Trophy winner.

Harbaugh saw something in the soon-to-be top-five NFL draft pick.

Harbaugh’s longtime rival, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll?

This week at the NFL combine, Carroll admitted Griffin wasn’t on his radar when he was at USC.

“We did not know about RG3,” Carroll said. “He was not the household name as a quarterback at the time. As I look back, I wish I would have.”

He didn’t know about RG3? It’s easy to ask this now: What was his deal?

Harbaugh, by the way, has won the past four games against Carroll in the NFL and college.

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He wanted to run a two-quarterback system at Stanford with Andrew Luck and Griffin, who now figure to be the top two picks in the NFL draft.

The idea of a quarterback platoon didn’t appeal to Griffin.

“My whole thinking behind that was (Luck) was already committed and the two-quarterback thing doesn’t work,” Griffin said. “ … So I decided to go to a different college. But I liked Stanford, I liked coach Harbaugh and I like Andrew.”