LOOK: No. 1 recruit Arch Manning on Georgia visit

New Orleans Isidore Newman Five-Star Plus+ quarterback Arch Manning spent the weekend at Georgia, his second trip to see the Bulldogs in the past six months. It’s his first campus visit since the new year, with a trip to Texas scheduled for next weekend.

Manning was joined by a talented crop of fellow recruits, including 2026 wide receiver Aaron Gregory, who he is shown with below.

@ArchManning @AaronGregory_07 Future of Football @espn @Youth1Football @TexasLonghorns @247Sports @Mansell247 @Rivals @AaronRoss31 pic.twitter.com/VaDLcLHfiW

— Brand of a Champion (@brandofachamp) March 19, 2022

The Bulldogs are currently in third place in Manning’s recruitment, according to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM). RPM has Georgia with a 11.5% chance to landing Manning, compared to 41.2% for Alabama and 36.3% for Texas.

Whether Georgia was at the top of the RPM prediction or at the bottom, this visit is critical for the Bulldogs 2023 class.

“Yes, we’ve heard the buzz around Alabama and Texas, and we do believe it to be legitimate,” DawgsHQ’s Jake Reuse said. “What we also believe to be legitimate is that Manning isn’t putting visits in just for the sake of doing it. From what we’re hearing the Dawgs in no way believe they are out of this recruitment, and this weekend will likely be a much clearer window into just how things may take shape moving forward.”

RPM was released to the public last year. The On3 engineering group teamed up with Spiny.ai to create the industry’s first algorithm and machine learning-based product to predict where athletes will attend college. 

It factors in machine learning, expert predictions, social sentiment, visits, and historical trends. However, expert predictions are still a big piece of the RPM equation.

Arch Manning currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $1.6 million, which ranks fifth among all amateur football and basketball players and No. 1 among high school football recruits. The On3 NIL Valuation is an index that looks to set the standard market value for both high school and college-level athletes. The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.