The Steelers and Browns could be two teams competing for Arch Manning in the 2025 NFL Draft\u2014if he declares. Though he has hardly even started yet, he is one of the most hyped quarterback prospects in years, understandably. The nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning and grandson of Archie Manning, he has football royalty in his blood.<\/p>\n
That football royalty largely sat on the bench last year, however, behind Quinn Ewers. This will be Arch Manning\u2019s first year starting, but Browns owner Jimmy Haslam isn\u2019t here for the chatter. Asked about the potential to draft him next year, he hardly entertained the thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI think if you know the Manning family, I would bet that he stays in college two years, so I don\u2019t even think that\u2019s worth discussing\u201d, he said. The Browns owner, however, also admitted that he doesn\u2019t know Arch Manning at all. Some view his decision not to transfer after sitting as a sign that he\u2019s \u201cnot like that\u201d, though.<\/p>\n But if he has a season like Joe Burrow, do you really think he won\u2019t come out? Then again, if a team like the Browns held the first-overall pick, Manning might not want to. But what if the Steelers were signaling intentions to go all in, assuming they were in range? The way things are shaping up, they\u2019re very unlikely to be, even with their extra draft picks, but you never know.<\/p>\n Even if Arch Manning were to declare in next year\u2019s draft, we don\u2019t know the Browns or anyone else would have to take him first overall. Just because his last name is Manning doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019ll be the best quarterback prospect in his class.<\/p>\n When speaking to the media earlier this month, Manning didn\u2019t seem to be thinking about his NFL future<\/a>. To his credit, he seemed sufficiently humble and down to earth, and spoke highly of Ewers. He virtually apologized for being part of the Manning clan, and for Ewers to have to deal with such a high-profile backup.<\/p>\n Arch Manning did play some football last year, though\u2026and some good football. On 90 attempts, he completed 61 for 939 yards and 9 touchdowns to 2 interceptions. Obviously, he showed enough to move forward as Texas\u2019 starter, and name recognition alone helps. But the Browns aren\u2019t going to draft a Manning jersey\u2014they need a franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n After all, they haven\u2019t had one literally in decades despite multiple huge swings. Between drafting Baker Mayfield first overall and trading for Deshaun Watson, nobody can argue they haven\u2019t tried. Of course, they dumped Mayfield to go after Watson, which proved a disastrous decision<\/a>. Still, even though the Browns just drafted two quarterbacks, if Arch Manning is the prospect everybody thinks he is, they could hardly pass on him. A Manning with wheels? It sounds too good to be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers and Browns could be two teams competing for Arch Manning in the 2025 NFL Draft\u2014if he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[615,54,7,2033,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-arch-manning","9":"tag-cleveland-browns","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jimmy-haslam","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114947461685643841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}