{"id":270215,"date":"2025-08-07T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/270215\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:30:17","slug":"arch-manning-no-longer-the-favorite-at-sportsbooks-to-go-no-1-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/270215\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Manning no longer the favorite at sportsbooks to go No. 1 in 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookmakers and bettors follow every piece of information, and so when news came out Thursday that Arch Manning \u2014 Heisman favorite and starting Texas Longhorns QB \u2014 was <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/college-football\/breaking-news\/article\/archie-manning-says-arch-isnt-going-to-leave-texas-for-2026-nfl-draft-134503783.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:unlikely to enter the 2026 NFL Draft;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unlikely to enter the 2026 NFL Draft<\/a>, it created some shock waves.<\/p>\n<p>Even if that news came via an issue of <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/arts-entertainment\/arch-manning-ut-football-quarterback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas Monthly;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Texas Monthly<\/a>, with grandfather Archie Manning saying in the piece, regarding the 2026 draft: &#8220;Arch isn\u2019t going to do that. He\u2019ll be at Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Manning had been the favorite to be drafted No. 1 overall at sportsbooks, but his odds shifted significantly on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the book, Penn State QB Drew Allar or LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier is now favored to go No. 1 overall in next year&#8217;s draft, which will be held April 23-25 in Pittsburgh. Manning now has the fifth-highest odds at around +850.<\/p>\n<p>There will be certainly be more odds changes between now and next year&#8217;s draft in the first overall pick market. Recall that at this time last year, former Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders was the favorite to go No. 1 overall at +300, followed by Miami (FL) QB Cam Ward (+450) and Colorado WR\/CB Travis Hunter (+750). Ward went No. 1, Hunter No. 2 and <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/article\/shedeur-sanders-slide-shows-theres-still-a-gap-between-nfl-drafts-spectacle-and-reality-210330167.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sanders fell to the fifth round;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanders fell to the fifth round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A quarterback has been selected No. 1 overall in seven of the past eight NFL drafts (Jacksonville took DE Travon Walker with the first pick in 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bookmakers and bettors follow every piece of information, and so when news came out Thursday that Arch Manning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[615,1828,127,1800,7,1802,212,6,15,948,520,17,51,1078,128,1827],"class_list":{"0":"post-270215","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-archie-manning","10":"tag-cam-ward","11":"tag-drew-allar","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-garrett-nussmeier","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-draft","17":"tag-penn-state","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-shedeur-sanders","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-texas-longhorns","22":"tag-travis-hunter","23":"tag-travon-walker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114990089801983923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270215","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=270215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}