Before nailing it under the Texas center as a first-year starter in August, Arch Manning nailed it behind the field. Texas has been amping up to welcome their very obvious yet most hyped up crown jewel as the full-blown leader of the offense in a brand new season, but the blueblood kid made sure his NIL opportunities are racked up at this golden chance. Early on Tuesday, the Texas guy inked another massive NIL deal with none other than the sole dominator in the global ride-hailing and taxi market, Uber, to promote their newly launched self-driving initiative called Waymo.
The QB appeared in a promotional video with his dad, Cooper Manning, and grandfather, Archie Manning, in a Waymo, a driverless autonomous ride-sharing vehicle recently launched in Austin. The three generations of the Mannings engaged in a captivating conversation about the use of technologies in their respective eras.
Archie, the elder Manning, tackles some queries about his use of computers and cell phones growing up in a classic era, while Cooper pocks Arch about some parking tickets. ”Arch, do you Uber to class?” Cooper asked his son, who was sitting in the backseat of a Waymo. “Because I notice you get a lot of parking tickets. You must be driving somewhere.”
With a teenager’s quirks, Arch responds: “Tickets are brutal around campus, so I think Uber is the way to go.” Archie then interrupts the pun by pointing out the self-driving taxi “drives a lot better than Arch did last night coming from the airport. That was the worst.” Arch could do nothing but meekly agree with the old man: “I missed like three turns.”
The commercial basically revolves around the creative idea of representing the general lack of understanding of the modern technology of the older generation and how it’s our responsibility to make them aware of the positive, smarter changes that the world is constantly undergoing.
While we don’t know about the exact NIL term with Uber, Manning currently boasts a $6.5 million NIL Valuation, according to the On3 NIL Valuation, which placed him first in the NIL 100 with the highest NIL Valuation of any college or high school athlete of all sports.
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