Arch Manning could lead No. 1 Texas because it kicks off SEC play on Saturday.
Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian stated Monday that beginning quarterback Quinn Ewers remains to be questionable for the matchup attributable to an indirect pressure.
“He’s bought to do sufficient to indicate me he can play,” Sarkisian stated, by way of ESPN’s Dave Wilson. “Can he execute the sport plan? I form of have to see how he responds from in the present day’s work, after which what it appears like on a Tuesday, then a Wednesday, that are fairly heavy days for him, after which how he rebounds on Thursday.
“It may be form of a piece in progress. However in the present day was a superb begin.”
Ewers went down within the second quarter of Texas’ 56-7 win over UTSA in Week 3 of the season together with his belly pressure, and he’s not performed since. Manning instantly stepped in throughout that contest and threw a landing go on his first play, and he adopted it up with a 67-yard landing run on his third play.
Manning then began in Saturday’s 51-3 win over Louisiana-Monroe. He went 15-of-29 for 258 yards and had two touchdowns and two interceptions in that blowout win, which pushed the Longhorns to 4-0 on the season. A kind of interceptions got here on his first possession of the sport.
“I’ve seen lots of younger quarterbacks have a tough begin, after which that tough begin turns right into a tough recreation,” Sarkisian stated, by way of ESPN. “It was slightly little bit of a tough begin for him, however I believed he rebounded and did some good issues for us. … Arch is a extremely good deep-ball thrower, and it offers guys possibilities to go make performs on these pictures down the sector.
“With a younger quarterback, I am form of kicking myself slightly. I want I had a couple of different freebie completions for him, simply in order that there might have been slightly bit extra steadiness getting that completion share up, being environment friendly, shifting the chains.”
Ewers racked up 3,479 yards and 22 touchdowns with the Longhorns final season. He returned to this system this fall, and led them to a 2-0 begin that included a 31-12 win over Michigan in Ann Arbor earlier this month.
Texas will play its first SEC recreation since becoming a member of the convention on Saturday afternoon when it hosts Mississippi State. The Bulldogs enter that contest with a 1-3 document, they usually’ve misplaced three straight.
If Ewers can’t go on Saturday, he’ll have further time to get better. The Longhorns have a bye week earlier than taking up No. 21 Oklahoma on the Cotton Bowl after which No. 2 Georgia in what is bound to be their hardest stretch of the season.
