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The owner of Cleveland Browns, Jimmy Haslam, says that the Browns are not already looking for Texas Quarterback Arch Manning in the draft of the NFL 2026.
Haslam addressed speculation that Cleveland already has his views of Manning due to the problems of the team during the team,
Texas Longhorns Arch Manning Quarterrière answers the media questions during the dry media days at the Omni Atlanta hotel on July 15, 2025. (Jordan Godfree / Imagn images)
“I think that if you know the Manning family, I bet – and I don’t know Arch at all – I bet that there are university left for two years,” Haslam told journalists at a press conference on Tuesday. “I don’t even think it’s worth talking.”
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Manning will take over as a starting quarter of Texas this season, but the expectation he will declare for the draft next year and Haslam’s ties with the Manning family have led a lot to suggest that Manning could be chosen with one of the two first round choices that the Browns have next year.
Cleveland Browns Manage and main partner Jimmy Haslam during the Training Camp at the CrossCountry Mortgage Campus on July 28, 2025. (Ken Blaze / Imagn images)
Texas Star Arch Manning calls to stay with Longhorns “ obvious ” despite the transfer speculations
Manning passed for 939 yards and nine affected and ran for four affected last season behind Quinn Ewers. During the dry media earlier this month, Manning admitted that playing safeguard was not easy, but he never planned to transfer.
“(Transfer) never really crossed my mind,” he said. “I knew that Texas was the place I wanted to be. It was the city in which I wanted to be, an excellent education. I had friends there. I developed and grew as a football player and nobody. So, I never really wanted to leave. If there was that I wanted to be, I would have left.”
The quarter of Texas Longhorns Arch Manning (16) heads the ball against the Bulldogs of Georgia during the second quarter at the Darrell K Royal-Texas stadium. (Brett Patzke / Imagn images)
Texas opens its season on August 30 against the defending national champion Ohio State.
