Think the Rams would like a succession plan after Matthew Stafford<\/a>, or the Colts would like a Plan B, or \u2026 you get the idea. Any potential \u201cAwful for Arch\u201d campaign would be almost certainly doomed for a range of reasons \u2026 but you know that there are flailing NFL GMs out there who are wondering if a run at getting a Manning on the roster would buy them an extra year or two of employment.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
All of these factors combine to make Arch Manning\u2019s decision to turn pro one of the most consequential questions in recent football history. It\u2019s true that one player doesn\u2019t make a football team, but it\u2019s also true that quarterbacks, especially elite quarterbacks, aren\u2019t just another player.<\/p>\n
The wise long-term move would be for Arch to follow his grandfather\u2019s declaration and stay in college for another year. Money \u2014 while probably not an issue anyway for a Manning \u2014 is still flowing into his accounts thanks to NIL deals. Both of his famous uncles stayed in school all four years, Peyton at Tennessee and Eli at Ole Miss, both finished high in Heisman voting, both were picked No. 1 in their respective drafts and both went on to earn a quarter billion as pros. The NFL\u2019s not going anywhere, and another year of seasoning under Sarkisian could only help Arch Manning\u2019s long-term football prospects.<\/p>\n
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Now, if Arch balls out this season, ascends to his final collegiate form, and wins a national championship and a Heisman, well \u2026 the calculus changes. But that\u2019s very much an if, rather than a when, and a whole lot of programs will be very motivated to ensure that doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
While the football world waits for Arch Manning to make a decision, both the college football and NFL worlds need to plan for both contingencies. Imagine if you need to game-plan for an Arch-led Texas for the next two years. Worse, imagine if you end up with the first pick in the NFL Draft \u2026 and Arch ends up staying in school.<\/p>\n
Arch Manning hasn\u2019t even taken a snap this season, and we\u2019re all wondering where he\u2019ll be next. That\u2019s what you get when you have the power to reshape football on two fronts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 50 years ago, Archie Manning, then a junior at Ole Miss, knocked the college football world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[708,42810,64,63,6115,594,42903,42818,6588,3879,593,27966,42817,85,973,42811],"class_list":["post-50826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arch-manning","tag-archie-manning","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland","tag-college-football","tag-football-world","tag-longhorns","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-new-orleans","tag-nfl","tag-ole-miss","tag-peyton","tag-sports","tag-tennessee","tag-texas-monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50826","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=50826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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