Arch Manning has always played it his way, now it’s his turn at Texas

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Arch Manning did something that is so rare, especially for quarterbacks in today’s college football.
He waited.

The No. 1 player in the 2023 Rivals250 went to Texas over Alabama and Georgia with the intention of sitting one year behind Quinn Ewers.

When Ewers returned for the 2024 season, Manning could have bolted and no one outside of Austin would have blamed him. An elite quarterback like that almost never sits for two years in today’s landscape.

But Manning has done everything his way through his recruitment and since he got to Texas. And now, finally, with Ewers announcing for the NFL Draft on Wednesday, the keys are in Manning’s hands to run the Longhorns’ offense.

He’s being handed a Lamborghini and Manning should make it purr.

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There are so many special things about Manning’s game and his mental makeup. It speaks volumes that he had the patience, the courage, to sit for two years and play only in limited situations for two Texas teams that made it to the College Football Playoff.

One of five five-star quarterbacks in the 2023 class, only Manning and Tennessee’s Nico Iamaleava, who started this season and was involved in some rampant transfer portal rumors recently, are still where they signed out of high school.

Dante Moore started at UCLA – he was basically thrown to the wolves by former coach Chip Kelly – and has since transferred to Oregon. Moore has reportedly told people he wasn’t ready to start as a freshman and intentionally went to the Ducks so he could learn behind Dillon…

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Publish date : 2025-01-16 15:41:00

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