arch manning: Analyst puts "bizarre" label on $6.6M NIL-worth Arch Manning's latest ranking

On Thursday, On3's Thomas Goldkamp released his list of the Top 100 players in college football, ranking Arch Manning at No. 10 ahead of the 2025 season. However, college football analyst and the host of the Ohio State-themed show "Juck on Bucks," Juck, disagreed with the quarterback's placement.

Juck believes that while the Texas Longhorns quarterback has shown glimpses, there is no justification for putting him over more proven players.

"Seeing Manning at No. 10 in the country is bizarre," Juck said on Thursday's episode of his show (Timestamp: 19:30). "I'm a believer that Arch Manning is going to be good, not because of his name, but because he's a five-star quarterback. No. 1 overall, who was very good in high school, who has now sat in a good system for two years and learned. ...

"But to have him at No. 10 over No. 11, Jeremiyah Love; over No. 12, DJ Lagway, No. 13, Peter Woods. Whatever, we keep going, No. 14, Garrett Nussmeier, is insane."

Manning is the third quarterback on the ranking, behind Arizona State's Sam Leavitt (No. 5) and South Carolina's LaNorris Sellers (No. 8), ahead of other notable names like Drew Allar, Garrett Nussmeier, DJ Lagway and Cade Klubnik. That's despite Manning starting only two games in two years at Texas.

The $6.6 million NIL-worth quarterback (per On3) is also the third Texas player on the list, behind No. 4 Colin Simmons and No. 9 Anthony Hill Jr.

Arch Manning finished the 2024 season with 939 yards, nine touchdowns and two interceptions. He served mostly as a backup to Quinn Ewers, starting against Louisiana Monroe and Mississippi State while Ewers was nursing an injury.

The quarterback is entering his first season as a starter in 2025.

Arch Manning asked for special favor from Texas basketball

As he gears up for the 2025 season, Texas quarterback Arch Manning asked new Longhorns basketball coach Sean Miller for a favor shortly after introducing himself.

On Wednesday, Miller shared more about his first conversation with Manning.

"We came together, and he said, 'Welcome to Texas. I'm a big basketball fan,'" Miller told Jeff Goodman on The Field of 68. "He was with a couple of his friends. He said, 'Hey, do you mind if we sneak in and play pickup (at the Moody Center) once in a while?' That was his question for me, and I said, 'Anytime, anytime. Whatever you do, don't get hurt.'"

Manning played basketball while he was at Isidore Newman High School (Louisiana).

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Allan Wolburg Robles is a College Sports journalist at Sportskeeda with over 17 years of experience in the field writing for publications including Reforma, Yahoo! OddsShark and Apuesta. Allan studied Communications at Anáhuac University, where he learned what would become the basis of a trade that was already a dream of his before starting college.

His favorite team is Army West Point as when he was young, Allan lived in West Point for a couple of years, went to pretty much every home game, a couple of Army-Navy games and even got to meet some of the players.

Allan's favorite players of all time include Tommie Frazier, who was unbelievable during the Nebraska dynasty of the early 90's. Tim Tebow was also a favorite, mainly because of his leadership skills, although he was also awesome on the football field. As a fan of defensive football, (or what's left of it), Sean Taylor could take over a game for Miami.

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Besides sports, Allan enjoys reading books, watching movies and spending time with his dogs.

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