This Recruiting Expert Defends Arch Manning's Five-Star Ranking, Says He Deserves It

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“This kind of calls into question: How much is the Manning name boosting Arch Manning? Ultimately asking the question is Arch Manning overrated?” PicKell said on The Hard Count. “Because this person with a fair amount of credibility made that claim. He also said, ‘Anytime I watch another quarterback in this class, I like them better,’ which that in itself implies that stars are somehow relative to the rest of your peers. Like, we’re grading you based on how other guys around you are doing and not in relation to just the model as a whole, which that in itself feels like the first chink in the armor.

“But I asked Charles Power … [to] talk to me about Arch Manning. I actually asked him that exact question. How much of his last name is boosting him? And he had a couple of key points. One, he said [the] last name, obviously, looks good. But when it comes to just what you’re watching on tape and what you watch up close with Arch Manning, he said he’s got the quickest release of a high school prospect that [Power’s] ever seen. And Charles Power has seen a lot of high school prospect. He also said he’s the most physically developed of the group and he’s very polished. Doesn’t sound like a three-star quarterback to me.”

“They’re not just handing out five stars,” PicKell said. “They’re not just giving out five-star grades like they’re candy on Halloween. Five-star grades are incredibly difficult to come by and every single recruiting service that I’ve seen to this point has Arch Manning as a five-star. So that means that either all these recruiting services are in cahoots or Arch Manning’s really that guy.”

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