Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by College Football Enquirer host Steven Godfrey to explain why NFL teams shouldn’t be “tanking” for Arch Manning or any other NFL prospect in the 2027 NFL Draft. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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Nfl teams tanking this season are making a huge mistake.
Why, good sir?
Okay.
This show has nefarious producers who fashion my idle comments over text into hot takes, and frankly, I’m fine with that, to be honest.
I said you- I said, “Anybody’s making a mistake by waiting an entire cycle in the NFL now.”
I think that’s what I was trying to say.
So, I c- I, I do a lot of media from the college side this time of year, kind of laughing a little bit at what go- what goes on during draft evaluation, where people are over-invested or under-invested or just misreading the market.
It seems like on the year of our Lor- what is it?
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March 31st, 2026, that the ’27 NFL Draft is gonna be pretty stacked, right?
And for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, like, we could just talk about quarterbacks for a second.
Arch Manning is the name everybody knows.
You also have Julian Sayin, who’s kind of like a He kind of looks like me, apparently.
That’s what I was told.
We’re, we’ve got similar coifs.
Uh- I see it Dante Moore from Oregon.
Yeah, right?
I feel good about that.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
When you’re middle-aged and someone says- You should you look like a college quarterback, you’re like, “All right, I, the moisturizing’s working.”
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You’re like, “Cool.”
100%.
C- CJ Carr, Jayden Maiava, Lenoir Sellers.
You know, I’d probably stop maybe in a Drew Mestemaker, the, the North Texas transfer to Oklahoma State, but, like, it’s gonna be a bumper crop of quarterbacks alone, and that gets people in the NFL really excited.
What I would caution NFL fans from doing is this tank for Arch idea, or this tank for whomever idea, or tank for Sayin, or whoever it is, because a lot can change throughout the course of a college football season.
I would just like to remind everybody, we’re talking about the lively We’re talking about 21, 22-year-olds determining many, many people’s livelihoods.
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Let’s talk about Manning for a second, someone who has not yet reached his potential by any measure at one of the most fortified and well-supplied programs in college football.
There will never be a player, in my opinion, that is a surefire lock that is worth burning an entire NFL season for