After shedding their season opener to the Ohio State Buckeyes 14-7, Arch Manning and the Texas Longhorns returned to Austin for his or her residence opener with a quintessential “get proper” recreation. Texas welcomed San Jose State to DKR on Saturday and recorded their first win, 38-7 over the visiting Spartans.
However all isn’t proper in Longhorn Land.
Whereas Manning accounted for 5 touchdowns within the win over San Jose State — 4 of these coming by means of the air and the fifth approaching a powerful scramble for a rating — the younger quarterback didn’t play a flawless recreation in opposition to the Spartans. He threw one interception within the 31-point win, and misfired on a number of throws that had Jesse Palmer speaking about his mechanics on multiple event.
Then there’s this second:
That grimace has led to hypothesis that Manning is coping with an upper-body damage, maybe one thing together with his shoulder or throwing arm. The quarterback was requested about that second after the sport, and had no clarification for it:
It could possibly be nothing. It could possibly be a response to a poor throw. However when Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian was requested about it on Monday, he had one other clarification solely:
Frankly, I believe that simply results in extra questions than solutions.
