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DALLAS — Quinn Ewers is the barometer.
As Texas’ QB1 goes, so goes the fortunes of the 2024 Longhorns.
When it comes to winning national championships, few teams hoist that crystal ball without having a real dog at quarterback. The two most visible passers in the SEC will take quite a few snaps before they take the same field at Royal-Memorial Stadium on Oct. 19, but the preseason hype is real.
Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers heads to the UT locker room after the 37-31 loss to Washington in the Sugar Bowl. Ewers enters his third season as the Longhorns’ starter this fall as they try to navigate through the SEC and earn another CFP bid.
Ewers and Georgia’s Carson Beck are gobbling up all the Heisman Trophy talk this summer with SEC mate Jalen Milroe of Alabama occupying the dark-horse role. It’s become a quarterback’s award with 12 signal callers winning it over the last 14 seasons.
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Ewers is an emerging talent with NFL aspirations in a sport where it’s understood that the best teams playing on the final weekend won’t have a bum under center. He was surrounded by a peloton of cameras and recorders when Texas took center stage at SEC media days Wednesday at the Omni Hotel, and in true Ewers fashion, he kept it low-key. No quotes that could be turned into bulletin board material. No call-outs of the Aggies.
Just Quinn.
He’s a laid-back guy whose fire is more internal than external. Standing much taller in a shiny pair of black boots with thick heels, the 6-foot-2 Ewers took in questions about college football’s most coveted award with the casualness of a bank teller counting out $1,000 in Franklins at the end of an eight-hour shift.
Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, left, greets quarterback Quinn Ewers at Texas Pro Timing Day in March….
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Author : Austin American-Statesman
Publish date : 2024-07-17 21:36:13
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