Arch Manning and cousin Charlie, 6, BOTH get their first starts at QB as Texas soars and Eli shares adorable clip from son's youth game

The 3rd procreation of Manning quarterbacks got its archetypal commencement connected Saturday, not lone successful Austin, wherever Arch was nether halfway for Texas, but successful New Jersey arsenic well.

'Arch is not the lone Manning to get his archetypal commencement today,' arrogant father, Eli, wrote connected societal media alongside a clip of his six-year-old lad Charlie playing emblem football.

The erstwhile New York Giants awesome caller inactive lives successful New Jersey, wherever Saturday's clip was apt filmed. The footage shows Charlie throwing the shot to a wide-open teammate aft immoderate encouragement from disconnected camera. 

'He's open,' a man's dependable is heard saying. 'Throw it to him, Charlie.'

The lad of Eli's older brother, Cooper, Arch was filling successful for injured Longhorns starter Quinn Ewers against unranked University of Louisiana Monroe connected Saturday. And aft dazzling disconnected the seat for top-ranked Texas past week, Arch had an up-and-down crippled against the Warhawks.

Manning did flip the archetypal 2 interceptions of his assemblage career, but offset those mistakes with a brace of touchdown passes and superb 56-yard onslaught to Longhorns prima receiver Isaiah Bond.

The 6-foot-4 Arch is the nephew of Super Bowl winners, Eli and Peyton, and the grandson of erstwhile New Orleans Saints awesome caller, Archie. Arch's father, Cooper, is the eldest of Archie's sons and erstwhile looked liked a aboriginal NFL subordinate himself, earlier being diagnosed with spinal stenosis astatine Ole Miss, Archie and aboriginal Eli's alma mater.

But young Arch spurned the Rebels - arsenic good arsenic Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Clemson and Virginia for that substance - successful favour of the Longhorns, wherever he's considered the apical enlistee of manager Steve Sarkisian's tenure successful Austin.

The 19-year-old did travel successful his begetter and uncles' footsteps by attending the Isidore Newman School successful New Orleans, wherever the third-generation shot prima impressed conscionable astir everyone by starting for 4 years astatine the section powerhouse.

'He's astir apt a small up of them arsenic a freshman,' Archie Manning told the Indy Star successful 2019, erstwhile asked to comparison young Arch with his uncles.

Despite his presumption arsenic a apical recruit, it wasn't until past week that Arch saw extended clip connected the field. With Ewers nursing a strained oblique, Manning threw for 223 yards and racked up 5 touchdowns successful a 56-7 triumph implicit University of Texas San Antonio.

He besides pulled disconnected a 67-yard touchdown run, flashing immoderate of Archie's trademark athleticism that famously skipped Eli and Peyton's generation.