How Good was Eli Manning Actually?

Was Eli Manning Good? To truly capture and evaluate the value of Eli Manning, it is our duty to look back at his historic rise. The best place to start would be during his college years. Eli Manning spent four years at Ole Miss playing in the SEC and had a horrible freshman year. It was truly a disaster given his stats. He played in 6 games only completing 16 passes from 33 attempts for a pass completion percentage of 48.5 percent. He didn’t even score a touchdown but had the misfortune of throwing for one interception. It’s hard to believe given those numbers that Ole Miss would want to keep Eli Manning for another season. But they did and our guess is that Ole Miss did so because of the legacy of the Manning name. Eli’s father Archie was a quarterback for 13 seasons in the NFL and played primarily for the New Orleans Saints. Eli’s brother Peyton needs no introduction but some reminding that he was a 5-time NFL MVP and regarded as one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play.
So it made sense to the head coach of Ole Miss, David Cutcliffe, to give Eli one more chance at the position. In Eli’s sophomore year, there was an explosion of his talent splattered all over the field. Manning played for 11 games throwing 408 times and completing 63.5 percent of his passes. He threw for just under 3,000 yards, scored 31 touchdowns, and only had 9 interceptions. To put things into perspective, those are roughly the same type of stats that Patrick Mahomes had in his sophomore year. It’s greatness matching greatness and in Eli’s case, it was his announcement to the football world that he was born to play this position and to excel in it. That he did in his senior year where he played 13 games and threw for 3,600 yards for a pass completion percentage of 62.4% scoring 29 touchdowns. It was a statement of consistency and reliability which propelled Manning to become the most sought-after player in the 2004 NFL Draft.

Eli Manning, New York Giants

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