Steve Sarkisian says Arch Manning is on ‘proper trajectory’ at Texas

Arch Manning didn’t have the best debut at Texas’ spring recreation on April 15, however head coach Steve Sarkisian has a relaxing message for Longhorns followers.

“He’s on the appropriate trajectory that he must be on,” Sarkisian said recently of Manning, who hit 5-of-13 for 30 passing yards within the spring recreation, on 105.3 The Fan. “He’s a real freshman in school. He actually ought to nonetheless be in highschool. Simply completed his first semester on the Forty Acres.”

Manning, after all, comes from soccer royalty.

He’s the nephew of each Peyton and Eli, grandson of Archie, and the oldest son of Cooper.

Manning is one in all school soccer’s highest-touted freshmen forward of the 2023 school soccer season, and chose Texas over colleges comparable to Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, and Georgia amongst a number of others.

“There’s a particular transition there,” Sarkisian mentioned. “There’s a transition to varsity life, there’s a transition to the scheme that he hasn’t been accustomed to, there’s a transition to the velocity of the sport and the way it goes.”

“There have been a whole lot of actually good moments that Archie had all through the spring, and there was a pair robust days.”

Moreover, Sarkisian acknowledged that the spring recreation “wasn’t [Manning’s] greatest recreation” but additionally mentioned “we weren’t nice round him both.” 

Manning competed with Quinn Ewers and Maalik Murphy for positioning on the quarterback depth chart in spring, and in Texas’ spring recreation, Ewers accomplished 16-of-23 passes for 195 yards and a landing — solidifying his place because the Longhorns’ beginning quarterback.

However Murphy additionally flashed his potential whereas Manning struggled, as he threw a 79-yard landing cross within the third quarter.

The Longhorns will start their season in opposition to Rice on Sept. 2.