Manning also doesn’t have to worry about living up to a quarterback legacy other than the family tree, though Texas’ incumbent starter may still have something to say about that.Ĭonfession: I may have gone overboard in my praise of Ewers after the Alabama and Oklahoma games, but, my gosh, rarely has a football looked as beautiful leaving someone’s hand. Texas manages to be a big-time program without those expectations. “It was absolutely not.”Īustin also isn’t Tuscaloosa or Athens, where the pressures to win it all every year must be suffocating. “Everybody is under the assumption that this was an NIL deal for him to come to the University of Texas,” Sark said of Manning at his Touchdown Club appearance. And he’s got a Heisman Trophy as collateral.
The national runner-up is USC’s Caleb Wiliams, the former Oklahoma quarterback, at $2.6 million. I have no idea if that’s on an annual basis or by the touchdown pass, but, either way, it’s a lot. According to On3.com, which actually quantifies this sort of thing, Manning is worth $3.8 million. At a Touchdown Club gathering in Houston last week, Sark rebutted speculation that Manning only came to Austin for the NIL money. Manning’s commitment to Texas appears genuine, at least for the moment. The availability of quarterbacks in the portal is nice, but it’s comforting to think a guy might not just be passing through. More than half of the programs in the suddenly swollen Big 12 this fall will start QBs who have transferred at least once.
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