{"id":349943,"date":"2026-06-25T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349943\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:11:11","slug":"texas-football-star-arch-manning-helping-at-manning-passing-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349943\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas football star Arch Manning helping at Manning Passing Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW\u00a0ORLEANS, La. \u2014 For folks that want an early preview of the possible 2026 Heisman Trophy race<\/a>, Nicholls State University in Thibodaux may provide the best opportunity considering the talent that will serve as counselors at this week\u2019s Manning Passing Academy.<\/p>\n

At least until actual football starts getting played at the end of the summer.<\/p>\n

Arch Manning<\/a> of Texas football<\/a> headlines the bunch, considering his family lineage as well as his status as the starting quarterback for one of the preseason contenders. But there\u2019s plenty more star power among this year\u2019s counselors.<\/p>\n

CJ Carr of Notre Dame, Trinidad Chambliss of Ole Miss, Julian Sayin of Ohio State will join Manning and the 20 or so other quarterbacks serving as camp instructors. All are among the top\u00a0Heisman favorites.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to know about the Manning Passing Academy, which runs from Thursday-Sunday at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a four-day clinic for high school football players that was founded in 1996 by Archie Manning, the former star quarterback at Ole Miss and with the New Orleans Saints and the patriarch of the most famous football family in the nation. That kin includes former NFL star quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Eli Manning as well as Arch, Archie\u2019s grandson and the nephew of Peyton and Eli.<\/p>\n

All the Mannings, including Arch’s father, Cooper, traditionally serve as hosts at the camp.<\/p>\n

A former camper himself, Manning now serves as an instructor for the hundreds of youth players at the camp. He\u2019ll also serve as a host of sorts for his peers, considering Manning grew up about an hour up the bayou from Thibodaux in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Manning will face off with the other counselors in a much-anticipated \u2014 and very relaxed \u2014 skills competition Friday night.<\/p>\n

In addition to Manning and the other top Heisman Trophy contenders, other confirmed counselors include Marcel Reed of Texas A&M<\/a>, Steve Angeli of Syracuse, Bear Bachmeier of BYU, CJ Bailey of NC State, Ryan Browne of Purdue, Noah Fifita of Arizona, Kevin Jennings of SMU, Kyle Lowe of Southeastern Louisiana, Jayden Maiava of USC, Owen McCown of UTSA, Alberto Mendoza of Georgia Tech, Jaron-Keawe Sogapolutele of California, Gunner Stockton of Georgia, KaMario Taylor of Mississippi State, Conner Weigman of Houston and Demond Williams of Washington.<\/p>\n

Indiana\u2019s Josh Hoover, LSU\u2019s Sam Leavitt, Miami\u2019s Darian Mensah, Oregon\u2019s Dante Moore and South Carolina\u2019s LaNorris Sellers were invited but aren\u2019t expected to attend, and former Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby<\/a> recently withdrew as a counselor after his controversial suspension following gambling accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW\u00a0ORLEANS, La. \u2014 For folks that want an early preview of the possible 2026 Heisman Trophy race, Nicholls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3230,261,42356,27,29,537,536,28],"class_list":["post-349943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arch-manning","tag-college-football","tag-cooper-manning","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}