{"id":152292,"date":"2025-09-18T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152292\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:53:08","slug":"nfl-draft-analyst-gives-his-thoughts-on-arch-mannings-early-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152292\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Draft Analyst Gives His Thoughts On Arch Manning’s Early Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the Texas Longhorns<\/a> entering Week 4 with a 2-1 record, quarterback Arch Manning is still struggling to find a true offensive rhythm.<\/p>\n

Currently posting a completion percentage of 55.3, Manning has tallied up 579 yards, six touchdowns as well as three interceptions across three non-conference games. While he has shown improvement in each game, many are beginning to doubt his potential.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s episode of The Triple Option podcast, NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay makes a firm statement on the football legacy\u2019s potential in the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n

\"Texas<\/p>\n

Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning (16) scoring a touchdown against UTEP Miners, Sept. 13, 2025, at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. \/ Scott Wachter-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Initially, McShay appeared to be all aboard the \u201cArch Madness\u201d train \u2014 having written about his talents and potential based on game tape in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t hesitate to make him my early No. 1 prospect in the 2026 draft class,\u201d McShay wrote on his website, \u201cHe is that gifted and has shown immense potential in the limited playing time he\u2019s had through his first two seasons at Texas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, since then, McShay proves to have a drastic change of heart, and wants off.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, talking to scouts around the league and putting together the preseason list and watching tape, I was like, \u2018Oh, we got a chance to have a special group, right,\u2019\u201d McShay said.<\/p>\n

Adding that, quarterbacks Carson Beck (Miami) and Sawyer Robertson (Baylor) have shown a lot of fire in their performance, as well as some under-the-radar quarterbacks, such as Fernando Mendozza (Indiana), Aidan Chiles (Michigan State) and John Mateer (Oklahoma).<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, Arch hasn\u2019t played well,\u201d McShay added. \u201cI think we all now, after three weeks, can kind of move on from that discussion, and hopefully he can turn things around and he\u2019ll be in contention to be the number one pick in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continuing, McShay added that Manning <\/a>has gotten too used to where his body lands at the line of scrimmage \u2014 maintaining a stance too parallel that he ends up either flicking the ball or running.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he actually gets his feet set and throws the ball and delivers, he\u2019s been really good. But, that\u2019s like one out of every three or four attempts that he\u2019s doing that,\u201d McShay added.<\/p>\n

As Manning has proven to struggle throughout the 2025 season, it appears McShay has lost faith in his possible 2026 draft pursuits. While things remain uncertain \u2014 such as his drafting odds or how this season will pan out \u2014 it\u2019s all up to Manning to show up and show out for the Longhorns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the Texas Longhorns entering Week 4 with a 2-1 record, quarterback Arch Manning is still struggling to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-152292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152292","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=152292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}