Arch Manning to Keep at Texas for 2026 Season

Texas quarterback Arch Manning will return to highschool to play in 2026, lastly placing to relaxation questions on his future past this season.

In a textual content message to ESPN’s Dave Wilson on Monday evening, Arch’s dad, Cooper Manning, mentioned, “Arch is enjoying soccer at Texas subsequent yr.” Texas officers informed ESPN the total expectation was that Manning could be again subsequent season, regardless that Manning may have declared for the NFL draft as a redshirt sophomore.

At a media occasion in Orlando, Fla., as a part of the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl, the place Texas will play Michigan on Dec. 31, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian mentioned Manning would profit from another yr in school.

“He is a younger man who’s gotten higher because the season’s gone on, and never solely bodily, however mentally, maturity-wise,” Sarkisian mentioned. “I might suppose he’ll need one other yr of that progress to place himself in place for hopefully an extended profession within the NFL. And he is bought some unfinished enterprise of what he got here right here to do and what he got here right here to perform.

“We had a very good soccer season. We left some meat on the bone with a possibility to be SEC champs, nationwide champs, and so in the end for him, I feel the competitor in him goes to say, ‘Man, I positive would really like one other crack at attempting to do these issues.’”

In his first season because the starter, Manning performed his greatest soccer within the second half of the season when Texas went 6-1 and made a late push for the CFP. With the bowl sport left to go, Manning has gone 227-of-370 for two,942 yards, 24 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Solely two of these interceptions got here within the remaining seven video games of the yr. He added eight dashing touchdowns.