Skip Bayless not sold on Arch Manning being a good NFL quarterback

Even though we just finished with the 2026 NFL Draft, there is already talk about next year’s class.

Many NFL draft experts are saying this 2027 quarterback class, led by Texas Longhorns QB Arch Manning, will be one of the best ever.

Manning is expected to go high in the draft, but one person who isn’t sold on him is Skip Bayless.

Bayless thinks he won’t be better than his predecessor, Quinn Ewers.

“What happened the first year when he was at Texas? Nothing,” Skip Bayless said on The Arena: Gridiron. “Quinn Ewers continued to start. What happened the second year? He started having little running packages, but Quinn Ewers started again. Quinn Ewers is beating out Arch Manning at Texas? Quinn Ewers was going to be a 7th-round pick of the Miami Dolphins.”

Manning struggled in the first half of the season but seemed to catch fire in the second, almost leading Texas to the College Football Playoff.

Still, Bayless is not sold on Manning being as great as his uncles.

“That’s why I gave him the first year,” Bayless added. “The second year, he sits, really? It tells you you’re not that guy. If you are HIM, you just walk on campus and say, enough.”

“Then, he does start this year, he starts off really slowly. We’re going six games deep before he starts to get a hold of it. And then, he says, ‘I’m gonna come back next year’. You are Arch Manning. Would he have gone first this year if he was in the draft?

Well, we won’t get that answer until next year.

This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: Skip Bayless not sold on Arch Manning being a good NFL quarterback