Texas Longhorns On SI · 5 days ago
Film Room: Why is Arch Manning Taking So Many Sacks?
The No. 7 Texas Longhorns have a problem: they cannot keep quarterback Arch Manning clean.
The former No.1 recruit has already been sacked more times through eight games of this season than he did throughout all of 2025. He has taken at least five sacks in three of his last five games.
What is going wrong with head coach Steve Sarkisian's offense? Can he figure it out before the Longhorns head to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to play the country's leader in sack-percentage, the No. 15 LSU Tigers?
Why Can Texas Not Protect Arch?
Texas' first problem is with man pass-protection assignments.
There are three main types of standard drop-back pass-protection: big-on-big, full-slide and half-slide.