SI.com · Oct 3, 2019
Let’s Pump the Brakes on the Arch Manning Hype
No surname in NFL history rings out like Manning. It connotes championships and greatness. Gravitas.
At some point in the future, the NFL MVP award may be named in honor of Peyton Manning. As for his brother Eli, no matter what legitimate argument you wish to make, he will be in Canton. And their career accomplishments may eventually be dwarfed by a teenager.
At least, that’s the trajectory Archie Manning set his grandson on this week.
In an interview with the Indianapolis Star, the patriarch of the Manning family said high school freshman quarterback Arch Manning is “probably a little ahead of” where Peyton and Eli were when they were freshmen.
