Particularly in this transfer portal, NIL era paths though college athletics are each their own story.

So it is with the quarterback battle this week in Austin between Texas' Arch Manning and UTEP's Malachi Nelson.

Arch Manning only top QB from Class of '23 to be at school he signed with

On signing day in 2023, they were in similar places, five-star recruits in a consensus high school class that had four of those. Manning topped most of those rankings, but Nelson led ESNP's Top 300 prospect list (all positions), one spot ahead of Manning.

Manning ended up signing with Texas, and of those top four quarterbacks (Jackson Arnold signed with Oklahoma and is now at Auburn; Dante Moore signed with UCLA and is now at Oregon), he's the only one still with his first school.

As one of the mo

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