Arch Manning

2022 - 6 - 24

Edgerrin James Guarantees His Son And Arch Manning Will Play In ... (TMZ)

Edgerrin James tells TMZ Sports he believes the Manning-James connection will continue in the NFL with his son, Eden, and Peyton Manning's nephew, Arch.

"When I saw Arch Manning coming out in 2023, I have my son that's at Howard, so I said it's going to be a reconnection in the future," Edgerrin said. "They're both going to be in the NFL together. The next wave -- 2.0!"

Arch Manning commitment just the latest win for University of Texas ... (USA TODAY)

The Texas football team is just about the only Longhorns program struggling right now – and even it has momentum after the commitment of Arch Manning.

And while that may not happen for a while, even with Manning verbally in the fold, the Longhorns already have sports momentum going for the 2022-23 school year. At No. 1, with all but one of the first-place votes: Texas. Texas’ athletics success this year allowed it to clinch its second consecutive Division I Learfield Directors’ Cup, honoring all-around sports achievement, before the baseball championship was settled. Texas won four NCAA team championships this year, taking the titles in men’s indoor track and field and three spring sports: women’s tennis, rowing and men’s golf. The Longhorns also had six second-place finishes, according to a recent athletics department news release. Can one player who won’t be arriving on campus until next year change all that?

Edgerrin James predicts his son will play in the NFL with Arch ... (NBC Sports - NFL)

Arch Manning is the son of Cooper Manning, Peyton and Eli's older brother who did not play football past high school because of a spinal condition. Arch Manning ...

Arch Manning is the son of Cooper Manning, Peyton and Eli’s older brother who did not play football past high school because of a spinal condition. They’re both going to be in the NFL together.” The news that Arch Manning, the third generation quarterback of the Manning Family, will play his college football at Texas has Edgerrin James thinking about another Manning-James pairing.

Edgerrin James says son will play in the NFL with Arch Manning ... (The Indianapolis Star)

Former Colts running back Edgerrin James had a bold prediction following the commitment of Arch Manning to Texas on Thursday.

The next wave -- 2.0!" Arch Manning, one of the most coveted quarterback recruits in history and the No. 1 QB in the 2023 class, is the son of Cooper Manning and nephew of Peyton and Eli. "I'm calling it right now," James said to TMZ of Arch Manning and his son Eden James. "They're both going to be in the NFL together.

Edgerrin James says his son and Arch Manning will revive his ... (CBSSports.com)

NFL legends Peyton Manning and Edgerrin James were a dynamic duo for the Indianapolis Colts. The QB-RB tandem played seven seasons together, and both were ...

The new Manning and new James meeting up in the NFL would certainly be something, but why stop there? "When I saw Arch Manning coming out in 2023, I have my son that's at Howard, so I said it's going to be a reconnection in the future," James told TMZ. "You're going to see my son -- you're going to see James-Manning connection. James already knows Arch is going to fare well on the field since he comes from what James tabbed as "The royal football family."

Arch Manning Might Be Good Enough to Save Texas Football From ... (Texas Monthly)

No team does less with more quite like the Longhorns do, but even UT shouldn't be able to spoil the next great Manning quarterback.

When Texas stuffed a USC running play late in that game, every UT player had the same reaction: Vince is going to win this game for us. Manning’s commitment is a huge step in another direction—and reason to hope that the turnaround won’t stop there. And that’s what makes Thursday such an important occasion around the Forty Acres. Arch Manning is a difference maker. Alabama rolled to a 37–21 victory and the first of Nick Saban’s six national championships with the Crimson Tide. The lowly Kansas Jayhawks came to Austin and won a Big 12 road game for the first time in thirteen years. After Young moved on to the pros, UT coach Mack Brown landed another cornerstone quarterback, the at-first unheralded McCoy, who won 45 of his 53 college starts. Arkansas ran Texas off the field, and the Longhorns blew double-digit leads in losses to Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Baylor. That Manning turned down every other program in the country to spend his NCAA career on the Forty Acres is a huge and much-needed endorsement of second-year Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian. Took his time and showed a lot of maturity.” Even better, Manning’s commitment will likely nudge other elite high school players toward joining him at UT, where sharing the national spotlight with Manning and playing with a quarterback capable of elevating an entire offense around him could help punch several tickets to the NFL. What the UT football program has lacked is that singular talent with the ability to transform an entire program. Texas hasn’t been anything special for a dozen years, and the team is coming off a 5–7 season that was an embarrassment on almost every level.

Peyton Manning's nephew Arch Manning commits to Texas. 'He's a ... (The Indianapolis Star)

The college football world will soon get to see how good the 6-4, 215-pound quarterback bred from Manning football royalty is.

Sometimes though, in high school, Arch liked to compare himself. And he made a comparison. INDIANAPOLIS -- Not so long ago, Arch Manning was a freshman in high school starting for his varsity team at Isidore Newman in New Orleans where the scouts were already coming to watch.

Bohls: Arch Manning's commitment signals an endorsement of Steve ... (Austin American-Statesman)

It docked Thursday morning when five-star quarterback Arch Manning, the absolute prize of the 2023 football recruiting class, committed to sign with Texas.

Yes, we realize Texas is a long, long way — maybe Mars-long — from being able to compete in the SEC at this point. A top quarterback is more than the cherry on top, but it’s hardly the entire dessert. It may not take a village, but it takes a whole lot more than the guy behind center. Some might bring up Stetson Bennett, basically the fill-in quarterback who led Georgia to its first national title in 41 years last January. He won’t play a down in the NFL, but he kept the trains running on time, made a lot of big plays and benefited from a generational defense the likes of which may not be seen again in a long time. And Sark apparently picked the wrong quarterback last August because he benched Hudson Card in Week 2 and stuck with Thompson for the next 10 starts. In a nutshell, Manning’s pledge brings second-year Sark a sense of stability and incredible momentum, fills up a quarterbacks room rich in talent if not experience, serves notice that Texas A&M or Alabama or Ohio State won’t get every recruiting plum in the nation and inches Texas’ readiness for the SEC a tiny bit closer. Now all Sark needs is a dozen or more fire-breathing offensive and defensive linemen like the 15 he hoped he signed this offseason. The bluest of the blue-chippers. And you can throw in Matt Ryan, the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback whom Sark also worked with. I wouldn’t say the biggest ever because it has to rank behind signing Vince Young, the top quarterback in the 2002 class who has a national championship ring. While we know this guarantees nothing for Texas — Garrett Gilbert once sat in Manning’s shoes but was a bust here who later matured and became an NFL backup — this is huge. He’s got 35,400 followers on Twitter, but his commitment to the Longhorns was his very first tweet.

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