Featured Columnist IVDecember 16, 2024
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Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers was noncommittal on Monday whereas talking about his future, leaving it up within the air whether or not he would return to high school for his senior season or enter the 2025 NFL draft.
“I am undecided but, I am simply making an attempt to win these [College Football Playoff] video games,” he told reporters. “I have not considered something past that.”
There have been experiences, nonetheless, that Ewers will head to the NFL:
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Sources say Quinn Ewers nonetheless plans to declare for the NFL Draft after this season, paving the way in which for Arch Manning to take over in 2025. Manning is locked in with Texas and coach Steve Sarkisian, with no plans to switch. Proper now, each are dialed in on Clemson. pic.twitter.com/BYdC5EIgFG
The Longhorns will not precisely be in bother subsequent season if Ewers declares for the NFL draft, on condition that the highly-touted Arch Manning is ready within the wings. The nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning has seemed glorious in his cameos this season, throwing for 939 yards, 9 touchdowns and two interceptions whereas finishing 67.8 p.c of his passes.
There’s an argument to be made that even when Ewers returns to high school, the Longhorns can be greatest suited holding a real quarterback competitors subsequent season. Manning has waited patiently for 2 years behind Ewers, however he deserves a shot on the beginning gig.
Ewers, in fact, hasn’t carried out something to lose his beginning spot, throwing for two,665 yards, 25 touchdowns and 9 interceptions whereas finishing 66.2 p.c of his passes. He is led Texas to a second straight berth within the CFP, with a first-round matchup towards Clemson on Dec. 21 at 4 p.m. ET (TNT, HBO Max).
But it surely’s additionally honest to query if Ewers has improved his draft inventory a lot this season. Within the group’s pair of losses to Georgia he threw for 569 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions, taking 11 sacks and dropping two fumbles. Not precisely banner showings towards the highest opponent he confronted, and never precisely the form of movie prone to impress NFL scouts.
ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. had Ewers ranked fifth amongst quarterbacks on his newest large board behind Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, Miami’s Cam Ward, Alabama’s Jalen Milroe and Georgia’s Carson Beck.
This does not seem like a very sturdy draft class at quarterback, which seemingly signifies that Ewers’ ground is a second- or third-round decide. However would one other season solidify his standing as a real first-round expertise?
That is arduous to say. For now, Ewers is barely centered on Clemson. However his resolution as soon as the Longhorns’ season is over shall be of explicit curiosity to these in Austin and NFL circles.
