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Arch Manning: What makes him the man beyond the famous Manning name

Arch Manning (Jeff Sentell/DawgNat)

Archibald Charles Manning babysits. He drives a truck. He is described as a real meat-and-potatoes-type QB.

His math teacher thinks he’s the man in the classroom. Not the field. His younger brother, Heid, is actually his center.

Everyone knows him as Arch, but they likely haven’t read much about all that.

The Manning family declined the early scholarship offers when they started to trickle in. It was too soon. A lot of this is still too soon.

Or maybe too much. Georgia fans spelled out his name in Sanford Stadium when the high school junior visited last fall for a game.

The family hopes for this recruitment to follow the path of a 1980s courtship. Staying out of the public eye is an impossible task. But it is being managed with the precision of a Manning fourth-quarter drive.

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