There are a lot of prospects that coach Brian Kelly and the LSU Tigers would be pleased to land in the 2023 recruiting cycle, but there’s one player in particular that everyone wants right now: quarterback Arch Manning.
He’s a member of the Manning family, the basic equivalent to the royal family of football, which has produced one Hall of Fame quarterback in Peyton Manning and a likely second in Eli Manning. Now, Arch — the son of Cooper, Eli and Peyton’s brother — could be the next up.
He’s a five-star recruit in the 2023 class and the No. 1 overall prospect in the nation, quite an accomplishment for a quarterback. And to make things even more intriguing, he hails from the biggest city in LSU’s recruiting footprint, New Orleans.
Arch plays for the Isidore Newman School, where both of his uncles played high school ball, and the in-state Tigers are at least one school on his radar. He has already taken visits to Georgia, Alabama and Texas, and he still plans to take…