{"id":105991,"date":"2025-08-30T05:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105991\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:14:09","slug":"nfl-insiders-debate-role-of-nfl-draft-nil-on-arch-mannings-future-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105991\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL insiders debate role of NFL Draft, NIL on Arch Manning’s future plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday afternoon, Arch Manning<\/a> kick off his first full season as Texas\u2019<\/a> starting quarterback when the Longhorns take on Ohio State<\/a>. But one of the year\u2019s biggest storylines centers around what Manning does afterward.<\/p>\n

As a redshirt sophomore, Manning is eligible for the NFL Draft<\/a>. But there are still questions about whether he would turn pro or opt to return to Texas for another season in Steve Sarkisian\u2019s<\/a> scheme.<\/p>\n

That topic came up on NFL Live Friday afternoon as insiders Jeremy Fowler and Matt Miller weighed Manning\u2019s next steps. His uncles, Peyton<\/a> and Eli<\/a>, spent four years at their respective schools \u2013 and the sense is Arch could opt to do the same. As for what scouts are saying, Fowler said it\u2019s hard to tell where the former top recruit is leaning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI texted with some scouts around the league just minutes ago and they believe that they\u2019re a little torn on this, that they feel like Arch Manning does value his development and getting better, which could lead to multiple years,\u201d Fowler said. \u201cIf it\u2019s a close call and maybe he\u2019s on the fringe of being in a range that he wants to be \u2013 Top-5, Top-10, whatever it is \u2013 then he can go back to school and make millions of dollars at Texas. There\u2019s no doubt about it, and he can get better.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing the players like Bo Nix, some of these young guys coming into that have 50-60 starts, experience is now coveted in the NFL as opposed to those one-hit wonders. Also, as multiple people pointed out, the situation will matter a ton. Looking back with Eli, that mattered to him. It could matter to Arch. If he\u2019s on the fringe of the Top 5 and some of the teams at the top are bit of a mess, he could pump the brakes a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Situation\u2019 could matter more to Arch Manning than NIL<\/p>\n

One of the highest-profile players in college football, Arch Manning has a $6.8 million On3 NIL Valuation<\/a> and has signed multiple deals this offseason. A general manager previously told On3\u2019s Pete Nakos<\/a> the New Orleans (La.) Isidore Newman<\/a> product is due to make seven figures this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To Matt Miller, though, Manning\u2019s NIL earnings might not be as much of a factor as his potential situation in the NFL. Regardless of when he declares, Miller said scouts are already expressing excitement about what Manning could do in the NFL.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think \u2026 the situation and Arch\u2019s level of experience are going to matter more than the NIL,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI think the Mannings are probably doing okay financially \u2013 I don\u2019t want to pretend to know how they\u2019re doing, but I think the NIL that he\u2019s making this year will probably be fine. But I can tell you, scouts are excited about him when he is going to be in the NFL Draft, whether that\u2019s in 2026 or 2027. We\u2019re talking about a player who last year, had he had enough dropbacks, would have had the third best QBR in college football. And you see some of the playmaking that he brings to the table as a 6-foot-4, 220-pound quarterback. The arm strength was there, the mobility is there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went back yesterday and watched the Mississippi State game \u2013 the second game he started against an SEC team \u2013 and Arch has the wheels. He has running ability, he has the vision, he has the big arm. I think the key that I want to see and the scouts have said they want to see, will the game slow down for him as he gets into his first full season as the starter? And I think that experience, those reps, that\u2019s what\u2019s going to matter most to NFL scouts more than the last name, more than the arm strength is how well does he manage and play within the framework of the game and a great scheme that they have down there in Texas?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday afternoon, Arch Manning kick off his first full season as Texas\u2019 starting quarterback when the Longhorns take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[76142,64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-105991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arch-manning-23-isidore-newman","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}