Archie Manning Believes His Grandson, Arch, Is 'Ahead Of' Peyton & Eli At This Stage

Archie Manning is getting everyone's attention this week by saying his grandson and son of Cooper Manning, Arch, is ahead of where Peyton and Eli Manning were at the high school freshman stage...

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"He’s probably a little ahead of them as a freshman," Archie Manning said, when asked if he thinks Arch could be better than his uncles Peyton and Eli. They played junior varsity as freshmen and started as sophomores.

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Arch is a 6-1 graduate of the class of 2023 and you can see some of his skills here. But what about the pressure of having "Manning" on the back of his jersey?

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"(Arch is) playing good, he's on a good team, they’re having a lot of success and having a lot of fun and that’s the way it should be," Manning said. "That’s the one thing I always told my kids and I’ll tell Arch the day before a game. 'Go have fun.'"

As for those Friday night games, Archie Manning loves every minute of it.

"I mean, we did the Friday night thing for years and years. We did Saturday and we've done Sundays and it looked like we were about through with that and here we are on Friday nights again," he said. "But it’s fun. There is no greater institution than high school football."

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