That’s what Texas got Thursday, interestingly enough, less than a year after Quinn Ewers - a former No. But he’s also a player who could give a program desperate to be a national championship contender hope again.Ĭalling him a savior is an understatement - just ask Texas fans. Mix all of that together and he’s an NIL goldmine. His uncles are Peyton and Eli Manning, and his grandfather, Archie Manning, is a legend. He’s 6-feet-4, has a solid 220-pound frame, a rocket arm, golden-brown hair and is a member of the first family of football. Manning was built in a college football hype machine. “Arch is unapologetically who he is,” Isidore Newman head coach Nelson Stewart said. No long monologue, no thank yous, no reason given, no explanation of his future plans, nothing more. #HookEm.”Ĭommitted to the University of Texas. He posted a picture of himself wearing a white Texas shirt with a simple message: “Committed to the University of Texas. Manning, the prince of football royalty, broke his silence without saying anything other than providing the information people wanted.
So when we got the answer Thursday - where Manning would ultimately choose to go to school - it appropriately happened in a flash. Where he was going, when he was announcing, what his commitment would mean, all of it, was the perfect cocktail that makes college football recruiting what it is - a tornado of rumors, television segments, radio appearances and message board posts. Everyone speculated, but nobody really knew what direction five-star quarterback Arch Manning of New Orleans (La.) Isidore Newman was headed.