Issue raised, resolved on whether Texas QB Arch Manning would leave Longhorns for the transfer portal after the College Football Playoff.
Issue raised, resolved on whether Texas QB Arch Manning would leave Longhorns for the transfer portal after the College Football Playoff image
Yahoo Sports’ Jay Busbee raised several scenarios for Texas in 2025, including whether or not Quinn Ewers would return and what would happen if he did. Of course, one of the questions that naturally came from that conversation was Arch Manning’s future with the Longhorns.
The answer: Manning isn’t leaving.
“Both answers left a thread of uncertainty about Ewers and his future dangling — Ewers still has a year of eligibility remaining — and that was enough to set off another round of what-if fearmongering around social media. Would Ewers come back for another year? Would he be QB1 if he did? Would the most notable Texas player in a generation actually enter the transfer portal? (The answer to all three of these — or at least 1 and 3 — is almost surely ‘no’),” Busbee wrote.
“Texas is still hopeful to make a deep run in the College Football Playoff, and going with sophomore Arch Manning would certainly be a risk,” Boardwine prefaced before asking, “But, knowing what you have with Ewers, is taking the risk worth it?
“Right now, Texas has not made the decision to move on from Quinn Ewers, but it will be interesting to see if he can turn it around, or if Sarkisian is forced to make a tough decision.”
At this point, if Ewers is considering returning in 2025
The QB battle needs to be open now. A third season on the bench is not what Manning signed up for and may not keep him in Austin for long.
Manning may be QB1 material right now. Sarkisian may have to learn that sooner than later as Texas faces College Football Playoff elimination with one more loss before the SEC Championship Game.
