Texas NIL Roster Value: Arch Manning Anchors the #3 Roster

Texas enters the week ranked #7 nationally at 4-0, and termiNIL prices its roster third nationally at $49.02 million as of October 1, 2026. The gap at the top is thin: Texas trails #2 Ohio State by just 0.72% and #1 Oregon by 5.59%, while clearing #4 Georgia by 2.36%.

The roster total is the easy number. The more interesting one is how it's built — Texas's $49.02 million isn't spread across a deep group of stars the way Ohio State's is. It runs through one player more than any other roster in the top five.

How much is Texas's NIL roster worth in 2026?

$49.02 million, spread across 101 scholarship players who average $485K each — the third-highest roster total of any of the 138 programs in termiNIL's model.

Manning is worth 2.86 times the next-highest Longhorn, Cam Coleman at $2.21 million. After Coleman and Ryan Wingo, the value spreads thin across one edge rusher, two safeties and a defensive tackle before the top ten closes out just above $1 million — a much steeper drop-off than a roster with multiple seven-figure stars.

Why is Arch Manning the most valuable player in college football?

Manning's $6.32 million valuation isn't just Texas's top number — it's the highest individual NIL valuation termiNIL prices for any player in the country, ahead of Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin ($6.24M) and Oregon quarterback Dante Moore ($6.07M). On a 99 grade (A+) with 735,436 followers, he's valued at 10.5 times the $601K national median quarterback valuation.

That single number carries outsized weight on Texas's roster: Manning alone accounts for 12.9% of the team's entire $49.02 million valuation. For context on how the model weighs grade, position and audience size against each other, see termiNIL's explainer on how NIL valuations are calculated.

Which position group carries Texas's roster value?

Quarterback leads, which tracks the national pattern — the median quarterback nationally ($601K) is worth 4.97 times the median wide receiver ($121K). But Texas's quarterback share is a one-man number. Strip out Manning and the position group's lead over wide receiver mostly disappears, unlike a roster where the value is spread across multiple graded starters. See termiNIL's full quarterback NIL rankings for how Manning stacks up against every other starter in the country.

How does Texas compare to the rest of college football?

The average FBS roster is worth $22.95 million. Texas's is worth 2.14 times that, and its $485K average per player is 2.16 times the $225K mean across the sport's 14,068 tracked players. Texas's $49.02M also represents 1.55% of the entire $3.17B national NIL market on its own.

What isn't in this number?

termiNIL's plausibility audit holds six Texas valuations out of the ranked tables above — Jonah Williams, Richard Wesley, Tyler Atkinson, Dia Bell, Hollywood Smothers and Kaliq Lockett, each priced without enough grade or snap data yet to support those numbers. All six are excluded from the leaderboards until the model has more to work with, but their dollars are still counted in the $49.02M roster total — that figure, like every team total on termiNIL, includes every scholarship player regardless of ranking eligibility.

Texas's full roster, position by position, is browsable in the termiNIL terminal. For how the Longhorns stack up against the rest of the sport, see Ohio State's NIL roster value.

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