The past few weeks of college football along with some recent injury updates have led the Tankathon NFL Draft prediction outlet to make “serious” changes to its formula for the weeks ahead.
On Sunday, Tankathon’s official X account announced a new mock draft ahead of Week 6 of the NFL season. In a caption to the post, Tankathon announced that it would be removing Texas quarterback Arch Manning and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin from future mock drafts, projecting that both quarterbacks will return to school for the 2027 college season rather than declare for the 2027 NFL Draft.
“New NFL Mock with serious QB changes,” the outlet wrote on X. “Manning and Sayin return to school for now.”
Little Surprise There
Sayin suffered an arm injury against Indiana yesterday that will knock him out of action for several weeks or more. It would probably behoove him to go to one more year of college football to try and get an injury-free year of football so he’ll have more film for scouts.
As for Manning, that’s a much trickier situation. He’s coming off back-to-back underwhelming performances for the Longhorns that have seen the team fall from No. 1 in the nation all the way to No. 19 in the span of 8 days. Those lackluster results have an increasing number of fans and analysts now expecting that he’ll return to college and possibly even transfer out of Texas entirely.
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The new projections seem to have Oklahoma State quarterback Drew Mestemaker emerging as the frontrunner to be the top quarterback in the draft. Mestemaker is having a breakout season with the Cowboys and has turned them into a force to be reckoned with offensively.
The other quarterback getting tons of attention is Miami’s Darian Mensah, who has been putting up a historically accurate season with the No. 1-ranked Hurricanes.
Will Manning and Sayin both announce that they’re returning to college for the 2027 season?
