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Quinn Ewers has returned to Texas in order to live at last where he belongs…………………………..
Put your feet where they are.
Coaches enjoy this kind of adage, and Quinn Ewers of the Texas Longhorns is living it to the fullest for the first time in his playing career.
He told reporters on Wednesday that he’s not looking back; the long, trademark haircut that he used to wear, the mullet, is the past and won’t be returning.
Put your feet where they are.
Coaches enjoy this kind of adage, and Quinn Ewers of the Texas Longhorns is living it to the fullest for the first time in his playing career.
He told reporters on Wednesday that he’s not looking back; the long, trademark haircut that he used to wear, the mullet, is the past and won’t be returning.
I feel like I’ve been living my life in fast forward,” Ewers remarked on Wednesday.
It was maybe the most reflective moment Ewers had ever shared with the press, a public figure he frequently seems to consider as a diversion from his work in the background.
When Ewers’ career is taken into account, the evaluation is accurate. Ewers, eager to begin his college career, reclassified to the 2021 recruiting class in order to enroll at Ohio State a year early, take advantage of new NIL opportunities, and compete for the starting job after Justin Fields left for the NFL.
That all passed quickly because I skipped my senior year, according to Ewers. “My semester at Ohio State also flew by,” the student said.
When the Tom Herman era ended in 2020, Ewers’ lifelong dream of playing for the Longhorns in his native Texas was briefly dashed when he made a verbal commitment to the program that lasted for only ten weeks. However, the semester in Columbus forced him to slow down and realize how much he wanted to return home.
“I didn’t randomly decide to travel somewhere. I decided on a program that I firmly support. After arriving in the Forty Acres in early 2022, Ewers wrote in The Players’ Tribune, “I decided to return home.”
There was always the expectation that the Southlake Carroll product would take advantage of his first opportunity to declare for the NFL Draft following his third season in college, given the high recruiting rankings that saw Ewers as a generational prospect and his decision to reclassify and expedite his college career.
The threat that quarterback Arch Manning, the top recruit in the 2023 class, posed to leave Austin if the Ewers obstructed his path to the starting job for a second straight season appears to have increased the urgency around that promise made in the summer of 2022.
Surprisingly enough for many outside observers, both Manning and Ewers chose to remain in their current positions this offseason, assisted by a chart created by their advisors that illustrated the relationship between quarterback success in college and in the NFL.
Regarding his decision to go back, Ewers stated, “I just wanted to put myself in a better spot to be able to succeed at an at a high level once I hopefully get there so just more experience.”
At last, he desired to be at his feet.
Ewers stated, “I’m going to take my time, enjoy myself here, and not look too far ahead during this entire process.”
It was difficult for the guy to slow down after making an impression on the recruiting landscape as a sophomore at Carroll, the dominant Texas high school football program.
It’s difficult because this is what you always wanted to do: ever since I was a young child, I’ve wanted to play in the NFL and be successful there. Ewers stated, “I think it was just better for me to stay another year and then just enjoy it, to get to that point.”
The choice to come back was influenced by the team’s enjoyment of their 12-2 run to a Big 12 championship and the College Football Playoffs, which inspired Ewers, the coaches, and the other players following the devastating Sugar Bowl loss to Washington that came down to the last play.
“It was an amazing year,” Ewers remarked. “The relationships we had were probably my favorite team I’ve ever been a part of, and it’s cool that it carried over to defense.” I had great relationships with the linebackers, safeties, and d-linemen. You can always count on a strong team when you can get along with everyone.
As the entire team adopts a new identity, wide receiver Jordan Whittington is no longer able to guide a position room that also lost studs AD Mitchell and Xavier Worthy. Instead, Ewers is taking on a bigger role, coaching young receivers and transfers like Isaiah Bond and Matthew Golden.
“It’s beneficial for me since I can now learn more about how to support those guys and try to feel more at ease in that role,” Ewers remarked. Although Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian’s scheme is still fresh to the newcomers, Ewers has seen enough to know that they are all capable.
It’s the second week of spring ball, and they’re really starting to get the hang of it. Ewers expressed excitement about when they’ll be able to play quickly and with less thought.
“At the moment, I’m primarily concentrating on defensive recognition and trying to anticipate their moves in order to make reads more quickly. This makes my job much easier overall, and it’s also important to get those receivers aligned,” Ewers added.
Ewers increased his yards per attempt from 7.4 to 8.8 and his completion % by nearly 11 percentage points last season, all while throwing 98 more passes and the same number of interceptions as he did in 2022. Seven additional touchdown throws were completed by him. Thus, Ewers’ production is on the rise and still has a lot of unrealized potential.
Although Ewers has always thrown a lovely ball in practice, he is now regularly making inch-perfect passes to new wide receivers. When you combine that with Ewers’ feeling of security in his fourth season of college football, you have a player who appears ready to emerge as one of the nation’s top quarterbacksāexactly where he was always meant to be.
It simply required a little more perseverance than anticipated in order to acquire the maturity to be present.
“I’ve improved greatly as a quarterback in all facets. The wheels were churning quite quickly during my first year,” Ewers remarked. “I can finally play quarterback the way it’s supposed to be played this year because last year I finally slowed down.”