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Arch Manning announces NIL deal with Warby Parker glasses

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Texas QB Arch Manning announced an NIL deal with Warby Parker Wednesday. In the video on Instagram, Manning is seen wearing a new pair of glasses and conversing with his father Cooper Manning.

The video showed a quick recap of Arch Manning’s life through pictures. Basically, all the time he wore glasses. Safe to say, the youngest Manning quarterback can see clearly now.

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“People said I didn’t look like your average football player,” Arch Manning said. His father Cooper then said: “He had more of an accountant look.”

“But I saw the field differently, and when I started wearing Warby Parker glasses in middle school, it all just clicked,” Arch responded. Ever the comedian, Cooper Manning responded with: “all of a sudden, he’s reading playbooks on the bus.”

Clearly, the glasses are working as Arch Manning can see the field. Texas fans hope he can see it well in 2025 for the No. 1 team in the country.

“Having good vision changed my life,” Arch Manning said. His father wanted to take more credit though, saying: “There was also a great mentor. “I think it was the glasses,” Arch said back to him to end the video.

Considering the hype of Texas and Arch Manning this season, expect non-Texas fans to give him a hard time and talk plenty of smack. But it’s all motivation for the signal caller.

“I feel like I do a good job of just zoning everything out, but if I hear it, I guess it kind of fires me up,” Manning said during Monday’s player availability in Austin.

Whether or not that’ll end up paying dividends in Saturday’s much-anticipated road contest from Columbus will likely depend on what sort of reaction he receives from the Ohio State faithful.

“It depends how loud they are I guess,” Manning said with a smile.

But guys like Paul Finebaum are quite confident we’ll see a masterful performance from Manning and Texas. It’ll be all the more impressive if he does it considering Texas has to travel to Columbus.

“Guess who? Arch ‘Madness,’” Finebaum said on SportsCenter. “It’s going to be Arch ‘Madness’ after the game. Manning leads the Longhorns to a smashing victory. I’ve been accused of being a little bit too high on Arch. I don’t think that you can be high enough on this young man. He is outstanding. I know the last name, we all do, but he is ready for this moment, and he is going to perform beautifully next Saturday. I can’t wait.”