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Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers slapped with harsh reality by rival coaches
The Texas Longhorns’ final season in the Big 12 couldn’t have gone much better last year. Not only did the Longhorns win both the regular season title and conference championship game, but for the first time since the NCAA moved away from the BCS, the Longhorns were involved in the College Football Playoff. With both head coach Steve Sarkisian and quarterback Quinn Ewers back for the 2024 season, you’d think that the Texas football program would be riding high and among the favorites to win the whole thing this year, and even with the move to the SEC, that is the case.
However, not everyone is sold on Quinn Ewers being the guy who could bring a National Title to Austin for the first time since Vince Young delivered one nineteen years ago.
In a piece for The Athletic, college football reporter Bruce Feldman shared a number of quotes from coaches who had gone up against Quinn Ewers and the Longhorns last year, and just about every single one of them was critical of where Ewers, once the most heralded high school quarterback in the nation, is as he enters his third season as Texas’ starting quarterback.
“I’m not that high on him,” one opposing defensive backs coach said of Ewers, according to Feldman. “Overhyped. He has a good arm, and he did have a lot of talent around him, but you just see a bunch of stuff where you wonder what he’s doing out there.”
“I think he’s just still trying to figure things out. Sark (Steve Sarkisian) does such a good job of setting things up for him, and so you’ll see times where he’ll rip it, but then there are other times, he just seems to be a little timid.”
One Big 12 Defensive Coordinator noted that he’s seen a great deal of improvement since Ewers arrived at Texas in 2022, but notes that the sky-high expectations that were placed on Ewers when he came out of high school and signed a $1 million NIL deal before he had ever taken a college snap have only hurt the Longhorns’ quarterback.
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“I do think he’s come a long way from 2022. There was too much of the (Patrick) Mahomes comparisons around him coming into college. He does have a good arm, but he’s not anywhere near as athletic nor the playmaker Mahomes is, or has that kind of presence. It’s kind of a strange deal because people want to talk about that, about what he was supposed to be, or they want to talk about Arch Manning behind him. But that isn’t the kid’s fault.”
No, it’s not Quinn Ewers’ fault that the nephew of two Hall of Fame quarterbacks is on the roster, just waiting for his turn in the burnt orange spotlight.