Texas WR Gets Blasted Amid Arch Manning’s Struggles

Texas entered Saturday’s clash with No. 1 Ohio State already carrying questions about quarterback Arch Manning after a rocky 2025 opener. Those questions only grew louder when the Longhorns reached the locker room trailing 20-3, but the loudest criticism did not land on Manning. It landed on his receivers.

Texas turned the ball over on its first two possessions, one of them an interception by Manning. Then the wideouts took over the highlight reel for all the wrong reasons.

Manning found Cam Coleman open deep. Coleman let the ball bounce off his pads and into the hands of an Ohio State defender. Moments later Manning dropped a clean throw into the end zone that hit Ryan Wingo in the hands. Wingo dropped it.

Social media did not wait for the second half.

“Cam Coleman and Ryan Wingo doing their best Nelson Agholor impressions tonight,” The Fourth Quarter posted.

Watch The Tape was more blunt: “RYAN WINGO , ATROCIOUS DROP. The play off Gap Play Action was likely headed for a touchdown, great throw from Arch even with his base being messed with, delivers the DIME nonetheless and a NASTY DROP from Ryan Wingo on what was likely a touchdown pass.”

WTF College Football Saturdays added, “If Texas loses this game, it is not on Arch Manning. Cam Coleman with the interception and now Ryan Wingo with the WIDE OPEN DROP. Expect more out of your top two wide receivers.”

Aggregate Sports summed up the throw itself: “ARCH MANNING PUT THIS ON THE MONEY. Ryan Wingo has GOT to catch this.” Another account went for the punchline: “ARCH MANNING WITH THE LASER BUT RYAN WINGO DIPPED HIS HANDS IN BRAKE OIL.”

The drops stung because of who Wingo is supposed to be. He was Manning’s top target in 2025 with 54 catches for 834 yards and seven touchdowns. He opened this season with seven receptions for 121 yards and a score against Texas State. Those numbers made the missed touchdown look even worse.

Across the field, Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith was doing the opposite. The potential 2027 first-overall pick had six catches for 110 yards and a touchdown by halftime, including a score in the final half-minute of the second quarter.

One sideline caught every ball. The other let two of them get away.

Manning put the football where it needed to be. Coleman and Wingo did not.

That is the story Texas will have to live with for now, or until someone else drops one.