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Reports of LA’s interest in the Texas QB have heated up recently
Arch Manning has become a polarizing name in football as he gets closer to finishing his college career and declaring for the NFL, and it looks as though the Los Angeles Rams may have some interest in trying to make a move for the Texas QB if he were to come out in next year’s draft. The grandson of Archie Manning and nephew of NFL Hall of Famer Peyton Manning has yet to play an entire NCAA season as a starting quarterback but his family pedigree and potential has some teams drooling for his services already.
According to NFL personality Dov Kleiman on X.com, The Rams see Manning as the only clear cut QB1 in next year’s draft, and view him as a succession plan for current quarterback Matthew Stafford. He added that LA would pursue Manning if he were to come out early next offseason even if Stafford decided to play in 2026.
The idea of Manning paired with offensive guru Sean McVay seems like a match made in heaven. McVay has never hand picked a starting caliber quarterback in the draft, inheriting former first round pick Jared Goff and trading for Matthew Stafford after a long stint with the Detroit Lions.
This report comes on the heels of Stafford starting training camp this week on the sidelines, however McVay reiterated that starting the QB slow was always part of the plan.
“He was working with the training staff,” Rams head coach Sean McVay said Wednesday. “To be out here on his feet — could he be out here? Yeah, but what’s more beneficial for him? I probably should have been a little bit more specific as to [what] working on the side [meant] — maybe working in the tents, things like that. So that was according to plan. I kind of misspoke [Tuesday] as far as ‘working out onto the side.’”
“This isn’t anything new,” McVay told Yahoo Sports. “It’s just one of those things that at the early parts of camp we were going to monitor and restrict his workload anyway — really for the mental and physical aspects of it. That made it easy to say, ‘F*** that, the first five-day acclimation period we’re not even in pads, it’s not even real football right now.’ It’s the right thing to do for him, No. 1, and for our team.”
No matter how much McVay and the Rams are happy to have Stafford this year, it’s clear they view him as a QB that’s in the twilight of his career, especially after a contract dispute that lead to Stafford being given permission to speak to other teams this summer. In the end the two sides were able to work out a deal, and to be clear this is probably the best situation for both the team and player to have the most success in 2025, but both have also made it known...
