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The Shedeur Sanders saga extracted most of the oxygen from the NFL draft apparatus over the weekend, and rightfully so. But Sanders’ fifth-round selection wasn’t the only notable slide for a big-name quarterback.
Quinn Ewers, the starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns in back-to-back College Football Playoff appearances, came off the board even later. He didn’t hear his name called until the seventh round, when he went 231st overall to the Miami Dolphins. The former five-star recruit had done all he could for the Longhorns over his three years there — and someone named Arch Manning is waiting in the wings to take over in Austin, so the timing made sense for Ewers to leave. But … he also had a history of injuries and a year of eligibility remaining.
Ewers would have been better off entering the transfer portal instead of entering the NFL draft.
You could make the case based on money alone, and many are. He would have almost assuredly made more money in NIL deals than he will as a seventh-round pick. The No. 231 draft slot is estimated to have a value of $4.3 million over four years. It’s possible he could have commanded a deal to earn $4 million (or more) as a transfer — in just one season. Had he entered the portal back in December with so many blueblood programs searching for new starting quarterbacks, it’s quite possible he would have cleared the $4 million benchmark set by a less accomplished quarterback (Carson Beck).
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