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This is the NFL Draft Watch, where we update you with all the rising stocks, plummeting blue chippers, and who your team is scouting to be your franchise cornerstone.
We can wax poetic about the Manning family and the legacy they bring not only to the NFL but also to college football, but enough is enough. Arch Manning was a Heisman favorite entering his first season as a starter with the Texas Longhorns, and rumors surrounded him about what if a team like the New Orleans Saints or Los Angeles Rams could persuade him to leave college if they acquired the No. 1 pick in April's draft.
What was supposed to be the Fall of Arch Manning has ironically turned into the fall of Arch Manning, a talented young kid, to be shown out of his depth and struggling to withstand the football royalty passed down to him from his forefathers. After struggling through the first month of the season with only a few individual wins over below-average opponents to speak on, he found himself submerged once more under the waters on Saturday in a loss to the Florida Gators.
While he threw and ran for a combined 300 yards with two touchdowns, it's the two interceptions and the defeat to a beatable Gators team that will be the headline leaving Gainesville. The pro-ready throws and composure you'd want to see from Manning aren't there, and even by betting on raw athletics and talent alone, there are quite a few quarterbacks in college, including Florida's DJ Lagway, before looking at Manning.
In Peyton Manning's final season at Tennessee before being drafted No. 1 by the Colts in the NFL, he completed 60.2% of his passes for 3,819 yards with 36 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
For Eli Manning at Mississippi, he had a completion rate of 62.4, 3,600 yards, and 29 touchdowns with 10 interceptions.
Almost halfway through the season, Arch has already thrown five interceptions and is only a little over 1,000 yards for the campaign. Even considering his superior rushing ability, he's an incomplete project who is in more of a fight to keep the Longhorns' starting job than wondering which city will select him in any upcoming NFL Draft.
I'm not here to tell you to throw away all your Arch Manning stock. He's still only 21 years old in his first year as a starter with some of the highest expectations we've ever seen for a quarterback in college. There are still throws that wow you, and his legs give him an advantage when everything breaks down, but any questions on what would happen with Arch declaring for the draft this year should now be all but dead.
This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: NFL Draft Watch: Arch Manning isn't ready for the spotlight
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This is the NFL Draft Watch, where we update you with all the rising stocks, plummeting blue chippers, and who your team is scouting to be your franchise cornerstone.
Arch Manning just isn't ready
We can wax poetic about the Manning family and the legacy they bring not only to the NFL but also to college football, but enough is enough. Arch Manning was a Heisman favorite entering his first season as a starter with the Texas Longhorns, and rumors surrounded him about what if a team like the New Orleans Saints or Los Angeles Rams could persuade him to leave college if they acquired the No. 1 pick in April's draft.
What was supposed to be the Fall of Arch Manning has ironically turned into the fall of Arch Manning, a talented young kid, to be shown out of his depth and struggling to withstand the football royalty passed down to him from his forefathers. After struggling through the first month of the season with only a few individual wins over below-average opponents to speak on, he found himself submerged once more under the waters on Saturday in a loss to the Florida Gators.
While he threw and ran for a combined 300 yards with two touchdowns, it's the two interceptions and the defeat to a beatable Gators team that will be the headline leaving Gainesville. The pro-ready throws and composure you'd want to see from Manning aren't there, and even by betting on raw athletics and talent alone, there are quite a few quarterbacks in college, including Florida's DJ Lagway, before looking at Manning.
In Peyton Manning's final season at Tennessee before being drafted No. 1 by the Colts in the NFL, he completed 60.2% of his passes for 3,819 yards with 36 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
For Eli Manning at Mississippi, he had a completion rate of 62.4, 3,600 yards, and 29 touchdowns with 10 interceptions.
Almost halfway through the season, Arch has already thrown five interceptions and is only a little over 1,000 yards for the campaign. Even considering his superior rushing ability, he's an incomplete project who is in more of a fight to keep the Longhorns' starting job than wondering which city will select him in any upcoming NFL Draft.
I'm not here to tell you to throw away all your Arch Manning stock. He's still only 21 years old in his first year as a starter with some of the highest expectations we've ever seen for a quarterback in college. There are still throws that wow you, and his legs give him an advantage when everything breaks down, but any questions on what would happen with Arch declaring for the draft this year should now be all but dead.
This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: NFL Draft Watch: Arch Manning isn't ready for the spotlight
Continue reading...
