Though developmental speed bumps were expected in Columbus, Arch Manning hit a road block against the Buckeyes\u2019 defense. The most impressive aspect of Manning\u2019s tape from his start against Mississippi State last season was his rhythm, but he looked rhythmless Saturday. Aside from a few throws late, everything looked uncomfortable. That isn\u2019t uncommon for an inexperienced player in a tough environment, but even completing simple drag routes was a challenge.<\/p>\n
The overreactions will be loud and persistent this week. But Manning\u2019s inconsistent touch and ball placement can be cleaned up once he starts to calm down his reads, which should come with added experience. With San Jose State, UTEP and Sam Houston (all at home) on Texas\u2019 schedule the next three weeks, respectively, Manning will have plenty of opportunities to rediscover that promising rhythm before the SEC schedule heats up.<\/p>\n
Plenty of successful NFL quarterbacks had rough college debuts (see the start of Joe Burrow\u2019s LSU career), and it will be interesting to track Manning\u2019s maturation throughout the season. For now, let\u2019s push pause on the Manning-to-NFL draft talk. <\/p>\n
GO FURTHER<\/p>\n
What did Arch Manning\u2019s performance at Ohio State mean for his NFL Draft outlook?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though developmental speed bumps were expected in Columbus, Arch Manning hit a road block against the Buckeyes\u2019 defense.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-107583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107583","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=107583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}