When a team has the No. 1 rated player in a recruiting class on the bench for the second straight year, people will have questions. That's how it is in the era of NIL deals and transfer portals.

That goes doubly if that player is Arch Manning, the top prospect of the 2023 class and nephew of former NFL quarterbacks Eli and Peyton Manning. Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian has long indicated that Quinn Ewers will be the starter this season, leaving Arch on the bench for another year.

The Manning family is the closest it gets to football royalty. So why put up with being the Texas backup for two years straight instead of transferring?

"I really credit his family," Sarkisian said when on the Dan Patrick show.

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"I think they understand the process. We're in this world now of instant gratification, whether it's social media or the five-star recruit comes in and starts right away. But if you really look back at the history of Eli and Peyton, they didn't start their freshman year. It took time as they developed."

Peyton played four years at the University of Tennessee, improving each year until he threw for 3,819 passing yards, 36 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions in his final and most productive season. Eli nabbed the starting job at Ole Miss his sophomore year, throwing for 3,600 yards, 29 touchdowns and 10 interceptions as a senior.

Arch has already deviated from that path that his uncles carved. But be it their belief in Sarkisian's ability to develop quarterbacks or an understanding that it's Quinn Ewers' job to lose, the family has not been antsy about pushing Arch toward the starting job.

"I think one thing the Mannings understand is that when it's your time to play, they want to play really well. They don't want to be learning on the job. We got a pretty good history and tradition of developing quarterbacks over the last 20 or so years, going ball the way back to Carson Palmer and all the guys we've coached," Sarkisian said.

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Texas fans got a look at Arch — named after his grandfather, who was also an NFL quarterback for more than a decade — in live action during the Spring Game and he did not disappoint. He lit the Longhorns' defense aflame with 355 passing yards and three touchdown passes.

Arch didn't play much his redshirt freshman season, but expect that to change. When Sarkisian made an appearance on the Rich Eisen show on Monday, the coach emphasized Arch's development and said that Texas needs to get him into games.

"We've seen an immense amount of development in Arch. We feel very comfortable if and or when he gets into a game that he'll play good football for us," Sarkisian said.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas football's Sarkisian on why Arch Manning hasn't transferred