Arch Manning to the Cowboys?

Arch Manning, the current No. 2 quarterback at Texas, has become one of the biggest names in college football this season. He will likely handle the reins of the Longhorns offense after this year when No. 1 quarterback Quinn Ewers presumably leaves the program. 

There is plenty of excitement for that eventual take over and the potential of Manning building his profile to continue on his family legacy of playing in the NFL. The man who started this line of royalty, his grandfather Archie, named the team he would want to see his grandson play for once that time comes. 

"I hope he'll play three years in Texas," Manning said in a Tik Tok video. "I hope he'll play three more years...Funny, nobody's ever asked me that. Right off the bat if somebody asked me I'd say Cowboys."

Archie laughed off the knee-jerk response that sent social media into an uproar. Anything regarding Arch's future has a magnetism for such drama. 

Meanwhile, Arch has at least a year before he is eligible to declare for the draft and could spend an extra season at Texas as he continues to polish his game. That would put him on a more reasonable timeline to be a draft-and-stash type prospect for the Cowboys as Prescott would be closer to the end of his contract and his career. 

But if the Cowboys are in their desired spot with Prescott in the years that follow this "blow it up" campaign, they should not have the chance to be selecting a highly touted quarterback early in the draft. 

In that case, hopefully Archie's wishful thinking remains just that.