Texas QB Quinn Ewers on NFL wait: ‘Want to be remembered’

Quinn Ewers considered entering the 2024 NFL Draft before returning to the Longhorns and a crowded quarterback room at Texas based on a self-assessment that kicked back a decisive verdict.He wasn’t ready.”I think one of the main things for me was getting more experience under my belt,” Ewers said Wednesday in Dallas at SEC Media Days. “There is a line of demarcation for guys who really have success in the league and, obviously, there are some guys that have rare accounts of it not being this way, but there is a line, kind of 25. Twenty-five (college) starts – you see a jump in how their career went. I just kind of wanted to give myself a better chance to have a long and successful career in the NFL.”I don’t want to be a guy that just comes and goes. I want to be somebody who is remembered.”Ewers, 21, will make his 23rd career start on Aug. 31 in Texas’ season opener against Colorado State. Week 2 brings a road game to Ann Arbor to play defending national champion Michigan on a schedule that ends with a Nov. 30 trip to Texas A&M and features traditional Texas rival Oklahoma and a home game against Georgia on back-to-back Saturdays in October.Ewers passed for 3,479 yards with 22 touchdowns and six interceptions last season but began his college career at Ohio State. He transferred after one season and enrolled at Texas in January 2022, but he already had an education in Michigan football.

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