Looking ahead to 2026 QB class … We’ve bee trying to come up with a word or phrase that best describes the QB class for the upcoming draft. And the phrase we settled on is: To be Determined! On the one hand, it appears that will be a lot of talent at the position next fall. At the same time, though, almost all the top QBs in college football this coming fall will have remaining eligibility after the upcoming season and given the new NIL landscape in college football it will certainly be increasingly tempting for young pro prospects to extend their years in school to maximize those payments.
Time will tell how that actually plays out, but we could very well get an early indication this coming season as the two QBs who are generally considered to be the top guys in this year’s class – Arch Manning of Texas and South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellars – will both be in just their 3rd year this fall and both still have things to prove. Manning, for example, who is the grandson of one former #1 pick overall and the nephew of two others, will likely enter the season as the #1 prospect overall for the upcoming draft, has played well for the Longhorns when he has played, but the reality is that he hasn’t played all that much to date. Indeed, he’s thrown fewer than 100 passes thru his first two years in college and hasn’t really been tested yet in SEC play. Meanwhile, for his part, Sellars has elite tools, such that there are whispers that more than one team actually currently has a higher grade on him than Manning, but he’s still rough around the edges as a pocket passer. Read more
