Arch Manning dons Alabama gear as No. 1 overall 2023 recruit visits Tuscaloosa
Arch Manning is the top player in the 2023 recruiting class, as you’d expect from the grandson of Archie Manning, son of Cooper Manning and nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning.
His recruitment has been a closely followed affair, even if the Manning family hasn’t said much publicly about it. Even so, 3 major schools are reportedly in the lead for Arch’s commitment — Alabama, Georgia and Texas.
Over the weekend, Arch visited Tuscaloosa. As you can see below, he donned some Alabama gear (much like he did during his recent visit to Georgia). This picture is via 4-star 2023 OL Olaus Alinen’s Instagram story:
Alabama also recently landed a commitment from 4-star 2023 QB Eli Holstein out of Louisiana, but many expect the Tide to say involved with Arch, as well.
Manning faces a big decision on where he’ll play his college ball, and he’s taking his time to ensure he makes the right one.
SABAN ISN’T WAITING AROUND FOR ARCH AS HE MADE IT CLEAR! BUT GEORGIA IS!!!!!
I wonder who really wants him the most? Kirby Smart and staff have put everything into landing this kid!!!!
PS. Arch show them that it does matter!!!!
Negan
I’m certain that if he ends up in a dog collar looking jersey it will be because of all the behind the scenes work you did.
LoL, 99. Good one!
This will be only time Manning wears an Alabama jersey. The next time he sees a Alabama uniform it will be chasing him down.
I am certain that Florida will age to the BIG 15. That is 15 years without a National Championship. Georgia has 2nd and 3rd stringers that would start in the sorry swamp right now.
Haha well 15 years is not 41 years right doug! Also Florida did not back door any of their titles as they won the sec each of their 3 natty season .. can back door u with their 2 nattys say the same chump?
If winning a football national championship in less than 13 years (since Florida won the national championship in the 2008 season which was 13 years ago, not 15) was a requirement to stay in the SEC, the only teams that would be in it would be Alabama, LSU, Auburn, and Georgia. If that includes all sports, Florida has won a national championship in at least one sport each year for the past many years.
Says the guys who got one after 41…lol. Good one though!
Hey Doug, what is three to two?
I’ll give you aa hint: It’s the number of championships for UF vs. UGA since Buck Belue learned the art of the handoff in 1980.
Sorry….if 2021 was “backdoored”, then so was ’96 chump.
Florida once went 90 years without a national championship.
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You know Kirby calls Negan when any important choices about uga football must need to be made tailwhip!
Georgia’s most lopsided win ever against an SEC team? 77-0 vs……..FLA.
Due to cowardly draft defferments. Our boys went and fought when told to, and didn’t hide at home to play a game for a year before doing so.
Probably ought to leave that one alone, Army. Kind of ironic retired Army would even bring that up…
It is so hilarious to see how much Bama lives in the head of some people.
By putting “ everything into landing this kid “, Get Smart and company have nothing left to give any other kid. What a lazy comment.
Wherever he goes I expect a cutaway the first time he steps on the field if his game is not on TV. Wishing him the best. And if he surprises us and goes, say, to Ole Miss, Kiffin will see his recruiting take off like a rocket!
Georgia already has
The National Champion Georgia Bulldogs already has two 5 star quarterbacks on it’s roster. Arch would cement Georgia as the premier destination for the top high school players in the nation. Georgia has just as much real NIL opportunity as Texas A&M’s fake NIL collective pay for play scheme they are running.
I don’t think there is a factual statement in your entire post…
Doug from Al.com is harmless. I smacked that critter around for years on al.com. I was Doug’s posting daddie.
I remember doing the same thing to Doogie over there as well.
You ever notice that Doog hardly ever posts in anything other than Alabama articles? His inferiority complex sums up probably 75% of the clowns on this site that rock that lame Packers “G” next to their handle
Biggest clown show fanbase by a country mile out there flexing like their team is Alabama, with a trophy case looking more like BYUs.
What was your handle on Al.com?
You should respect the Profit I Am, cause clearly everything I said about Georgia became true.
GabrieRTR actually you look kind of stupid now that you see in person that Georgia has overtaken Alabama as the premier college football team in America. Even the Alabama homer Paul Finebaum said Georgia is the new king. Just get use to it.
Doggie. Slow down Scooter. They have not created the one victory dynasty yet. Except for inside your vacuum cranium.
Dougie. My apologies Scooter.
LMAO!
Oh the ‘ol BooHoo Bama But But game… “But, but, but, remember that one time on that one site that I was a keyboard tough guy? Yeah… I showed them..” HAHAHAHA! 33-18*(should have been 12, but BooHooBamaButButButTrollCried was gifted a mercy td by the officials)
Prophet Doug…Prophet.
Profit is what those Bama players made when they sold those lightly used Dodge Chargers they had been gifted.
And a walk on staring over the two
Five stars so what’s you point negan jr.. oops I mean Doug
The jury is still out Stetson. I thought not starting JT Daniels cost us the SEC Championship. Stetson is not great, but he is definitely better than Jalen Hurts when he was at Alabama. Stetson will start, but Kirby is not risking losing two 5 star quarterbacks to the portal if he plays like he did in the 2nd half of the 2020-2021 season. If JT Daniel was healthy early in the 2020-2021 season, Georgia would have won the 2021 national championship, too.
Yea….JT really made that offense click against Clempson didn’t he Doog?
What was it…..3 whole offensive points?
Dougie. You are very very special.
Got 33 against Bama though.
His point is that Kirby has yet to develop a single decent QB since he got there. Jawjuh is a 5 star QB graveyard and it’s not like they run the most complex system.
But if Arch wants to go somewhere to hand off 70% of the time throw it 18-20 times and hope he develops into a 5th round pick…..then Jawjuh is the place for him
Well gee GabrielRTR I guess having the #1 overall draft pick, 5 total first round draft picks, and a NFL record setting 15 NFL draft picks is not enough to sway you. We get Arch, then it will secure at least 2 or 3 more national championships to Georgia.
You can say Kirby doesn’t have QB’s drafted highly, but you can’t say his program doesn’t develop QB’s.
He just won a nation championship with a 2-star former walk-on.
That’s pretty good QB development.
“The National Champion Georgia Bulldogs already has two 5 star quarterbacks ”
And they both sit on the bench picking their noses.
Keeps our Scout team sharp.
Their nose-picking fingers have nice rings on them.
While I think Holstein heading there is knocking Tuscaloosa down his list, I think it’s a good move that he honored his commitment to visit.
He might be better off at Georgia, he will probably be a junior before he could start at Bama, if ever. He could bypass that high school QB in Athens day 1. He won’t ever get a ring in Athens (40 years maybe) You start at Bama and you are instantly 1st or 2nd round in the NFL draft and you are set. NIL money from a used car lot in metro Atlanta doesn’t compare to 1st round NFL money from T-town. Kirby & Jimbo wear Saban pajamas when they go to bed at night, who’d you really rather play for? One hitter wonders or a Legend and the GOAT?
The “40 years” thing doesn’t sting quite as much as it used to.
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So you think there is more money in Tuscaloosa thN Atlanta?
The last quarterback from Georgia drafted in the NFL was 11 years ago. I agree wit the comment that Georgia is a 5* QB graveyard. Don’t understand the logic of the kid going there with the ultimate prize being the NFL.
Time flies. I had no idea Fromm had been gone that long.
My bad, I meant first rounder. Yeah that 5th round pick who is now a free agent really set the bar high.
Didn’t he win the super bowl this year though?
The Giants didn’t win the superbowl last year. That was the team he was on.
Cool, we’ll win another title with a walk-on, fine with me.
Just win, baby.
HE’S WOULD BE GOING TO THE VOLS BUT HE HEARD THAT HENDON HOOKER WANTED TO PLAY COLLEGE BALL FOR LONGER THAN TOM BRADY HAS BEEN A PRO!!!
It’s been a significant amount of time since Alabama had a QB turn into a superstar in the NFL. Last one for Georgia was Matthew Stafford. The SEC doesn’t normally turn out big name QBs to the NFL. Most SEC schools have put 1 good to great qb into the league in the last 25 years. Both Mannings, Newton, Stafford, Prescott, even Jay Cutler from Vandy just to name a few. It’s been a long time since Alabama has had a QB turn into a star at the next level. You’d have to go back to Joe Namath. Jury is still out on Hurts but my money is on him to do better than Tua. The SEC didn’t normally have the offensive output like the other conferences due to the defenses being top in the country. He will do just fine at over half of the schools in the SEC. Alabama isn’t a powerhouse for QBs. Nearly every other position Alabama dominates except kickers and punters and we all know good punters are reserved for UT. I don’t think he will have an advantage picking one over the other due to the massive amount of talent at WR that both schools have. I personally wish he’d pick somebody like Auburn or TAMU so that UT doesn’t have to play him every year.
But Bama does have 3 Starting QBs in the NFL…
They do and I did forget about Mac Jones. He’s a step above Jalen. I’m thinking of just top tier QBs. The 3 they have starting now aren’t at that level yet. The WRs at Bama help the QBs SIGNIFICANTLY. AJ McCarron was a good college quarterback and his RB and WR made him look like a phenomenal QB. Trevor Lawrence and Tebow were great college QBs but their WRs made them look next level. Mahomes, Manning, Brees, Rivers, Rodgers, Wilson, Allen, Stafford, those guys are big time QBs that I’m talking about. Main point was he could go to either school and I really don’t think it would affect his draft stock when the time comes. He will compete for a championship at both. Also, for the record, I’m a realist when it comes to UT and I don’t see us beating bama with their 3rd string QB until Saban is gone. I respect him as much as I hate him. And the baseball team deserves a lot of the hate they are getting here for the show they put on during the season. Can’t play the role of the villain and be shocked when people are excited when you fail.
That’s great… Answer me this. What schools currently have three QBs starting in the NFL?
Putting a QB in the league 10 years ago under another Head Coach means nothing.
VFL-88, I am dissappointed you forgot the legend Ken Stabler. He came after Namath and IMO, was a much better QB.
I do believe Mac Jones has the potential to be just under the top tier, maybe in the class of a Derek Carr, which is not too bad at all.