Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said he wouldn’t be surprised if Arch Manning bypassed the 2027 NFL draft and stayed in college for a fifth year. <\/p>\n
“You know, we haven’t had the discussion, but I will tell you, I would not be surprised,” he told Kay Adams on the Up & Adams show. “I think Arch really loves college football, I really do. I think he loves the University of Texas. He does pretty good through NIL, you know, he’s got some pretty good endorsements going right now, which is a credit to him and obviously the lineage of the last name and the brand of the University of Texas, all of those things coming together. On the same token, I won’t be surprised if he declares and decides to go into the draft. But I think some of that is dependent on how we play as a team this fall, how he plays individually. Knock on wood, injury-free football.”<\/p>\n
Manning, 22, threw for 3,163 yards, 26 touchdowns and seven interceptions last season, completing 61.4 percent of his passes. His signature game was a rough one, however, as he threw for just 170 yards with a touchdown and an interception in an opening-season 14-7 loss to Ohio State. The Longhorns were just 1-for-5 on fourth down in the contest and Manning struggled immensely. <\/p>\n
He was better as the season progressed but failed to lead Texas back to the College Football Playoff, as losses to Florida and Georgia in SEC play sealed their fate. <\/p>\n
Still, Manning is widely considered<\/a> one of the top prospects<\/a> in college football, and a monster 2026 season could make him the favorite to be the top overall pick in the 2027 NFL draft. Would he bypass the chance to go No. 1 overall for a fifth college season? <\/p>\n Apparently, there’s a non-zero chance of that happening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said he wouldn’t be surprised if Arch Manning bypassed the 2027 NFL draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-706038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}