Quinn Ewers declared for the 2025 NFL Draft on Monday, and his four-year college career will go down as the one who brought Texas back.
Back in 2021, Ewers reclassified, which means he was able to be a part of the 2021 recruiting class and enroll in college early, and the Southlake Texas kid chose to head north and start his career with Ohio State.
It was a power move for Ewers to head to Columbus, and a lot of it was with NIL; he always wanted to go to Texas but was holding them hostage to give him a better deal. Ewers was on Ohio State’s campus for six months and headed to Austin, where he would try to bring Texas back with head coach Steve Sarkisian.
A season before Ewers got to Texas, they were a five-win team, and shortly after he stepped on campus, he took them from being non-bowl eligible to eight wins. A season later, he went down to Alabama for a significant victory, which helped lead them to their first-ever college football playoffs.
Texas came up short to Washington in the Sugar Bowl, and many didn’t know if Ewers would return to school for one more season or declare for the draft.
Instead, Quinn Ewers gave it one more ride and returned to the Longhorns in 2024. It was a crucial time for the program because they were going from the Big 12 to the SEC, and all they did was win, going 11-2, losing in the SEC title game, and then falling to Ohio State in the semifinals.
Ewers was the number-one quarterback in his class coming out of high school, and he was the guy who was supposed to bring Texas back. Guess what he did.
Did they win a national championship? No, but he got a lifeless program for almost two decades, bringing them back to playing meaningful postseason games.
It’s hard to win it all in college football, and Ewers did his best. He also did it with Arch Manning breathing down his neck for two seasons and all the fans cheering for him to play.
The situation wasn’t easy, and Ewers did a great job and should be known as a Texas legend for the rest of his life.
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