The contest over the legacy of former Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers has shifted in tone and content since the three-year starter fell into the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft late last month, a remarkable fall for a player once considered a generational quarterback talent.
Under contention were questions about whether his career accomplishments in college could stand up to the scrutiny of his recruiting rankings not matching his late-round selection and questions about whether he made a mistake by not entering the NCAA transfer portal to play a final season of college football.
The baseline elements of Ewers’ legacy on the Forty Acres are a simple list of his accomplishments — starting at quarterback for three years, not losing a road game since Oklahoma State in 2022, winning a Big 12 title, competing for an SEC championship in the program’s first season in the conference, taking the Horns to back-to-back College Football Playoff semifinals.
But those are just the baseline elements.
“His legacy is way bigger to me than just that,” Texas head coach Sarkisian said in an appearance on the Pate State Speaker Series this week.
“Because if Quinn Ewers doesn’t come, I don’t know if the next five guys are coming, right? And if those next five guys don’t come, I don’t know if the next 10 guys are coming. And then if those 10 guys don’t come, I don’t know if the next 20 guys are coming. So that was a huge deal for him to want to come be part of our program, that he could see the forest through the trees about where we were headed as a program.”
One of the most significant elements of Ewers’ legacy is how he decided to leave Texas, declaring for the draft instead of pursuing other chances in the transfer portal with reports that he could command as much as six to eight million…
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Publish date : 2025-05-07 20:44:00
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