Quinn
Ewers.
Quinn
Ewers.
Texas· 6'2"· 214 lb
"A decorated college starter with a pro-style passing game, Ewers’s NFL value hinges on his ability to maintain a clean pocket and overcome a history of injuries that have hampered his deep ball."Pre-draft read
Three-year starter at Texas after a redshirt year at Ohio State, Ewers is a rhythm pocket passer who wins with timing, anticipation and a quick, compact release. He plays on schedule inside structure, hits the intermediate levels with touch and layers throws over zone defenders, and his ball placement on the move-the-chains menu is why he started 36 games in two conferences.
He is a genuine full-field reader when the pocket stays clean, and his best tape is play-action off Steve Sarkisian's boots. The athletic profile is ordinary — he ran nothing at the combine and finished college with negative career rushing yards — so the signature is processing speed, not creation, and the arm plays through the middle rather than to the boundary.
Timing-based West Coast or Shanahan-style play-action offense with defined half-field reads
Year 1: QB2 or QB3 who can run the offense off a script if pressed. Ceiling: long-term NFL backup with spot-starter value in a rhythm passing game.
A vertical, isolation-heavy offense that asks him to hold the ball, win from muddy pockets and drive boundary go balls against press coverage.
Protection quality is the variable — his accuracy holds up on schedule and falls off sharply when the launch point moves.
Quinn Ewers 2024 Texas Highlights || HD
Final college season reel with the play-action and intermediate timing throws that define his tape.
Quinn Ewers | 2024 Texas Highlights
Full-season cutup of his final SEC year, including Playoff snaps against elite fronts.
Texas Football: Quinn Ewers' BEST Throws From 2024
Throw-only compilation showing ball placement and touch to the intermediate levels.
Ewers is a timing-and-touch quarterback whose identity is on-schedule operation in a pro-style passing game. The former number one recruit in the country started 36 games at Texas, won a Big 12 title and reached back-to-back College Football Playoff semifinals, so the résumé is as decorated as any passer in the class.
The production tells the story of a very good college starter rather than a rising one: 9,128 yards, 68 touchdowns and 24 interceptions, with a 2024 season that produced 31 scores but also a career-high 12 picks and a completion rate that slipped from his sophomore year. Injuries were a recurring theme — an oblique in 2023, an abdominal strain in 2024 — and the tape shows a passer whose base gets loose under pressure and whose deep ball drifts when he cannot step into it.
Boards were split between an early Day 3 developmental starter and a pure backup, and he slid all the way to 231 before Miami stopped the fall. It was a free swing on pedigree and pocket habits behind Tua Tagovailoa, with no expectation of anything in year one.
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Timing and anticipation
Throws receivers open on in-breakers and out-cuts, releasing before the break because he trusts the leverage read.
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Compact release
A quick, repeatable delivery that lets him get the ball out against pressure and reset without a long windup.
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Touch to all levels
Layers throws over underneath zone and drops seam and corner balls in with feel rather than pure velocity.
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Play-action operation
Excellent on boot and half-field concepts, keeping his eyes downfield through the fake and hitting the crosser in stride.
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Big-game experience
Thirty-six starts, a Big 12 title and two Playoff semifinal runs against elite SEC and Big Ten defenses.
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Pressure response
His base gets narrow and he throws off his back foot when the pocket squeezes, which turns clean reads into sailed balls.
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Deep accuracy
Ball drifts on go routes and back-shoulder throws when he cannot fully step into the delivery.
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Durability
Missed time with an oblique in 2023 and an abdominal strain in 2024, and the tape after each return dipped.
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Limited creation
Negative career rushing yards and no combine testing; he will not extend plays or punish a defense with his legs.
| Yr | Team | G | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Texas | 10 | 172 | 296 | 2177 | 15 | 6 |
| 2023 | Texas | 12 | 272 | 394 | 3479 | 22 | 6 |
| 2024 | Texas | 14 | 293 | 445 | 3472 | 31 | 12 |
| Career | — | 36 | 737 | 1135 | 9128 | 68 | 24 |
Season lines verified on Sports-Reference (Texas, 2022-2024); the season sums match the career totals exactly (737/1,135, 9,128 yards, 68 TD, 24 INT, 36 games). His 2021 redshirt year at Ohio State is not listed as a season because he appeared in one game with zero pass attempts. Rushing totals are tracked separately and were negative for his career (140 att, -59 yards, 8 TD).
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
- Arch ManningQB15%
- Matthew GoldenWR10%
- Isaiah BondWR9%
#1 of 15 tracked contributors · Production leaned on volume · Offense explosiveness 1.28 (p56) · CFBD — usage x PPA per tracked player
Reliable, unspectacular backup who can start a stretch without sinking an offense.
Rhythm passer who turned timing, touch and structure into a long starting career.
Decorated college starter whose pressure habits and turnovers cap him below the QB2 line.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Miami redshirted him in practice, effectively. Ewers opened 2025 as the third quarterback behind Tua Tagovailoa and Zach Wilson, and did not sniff the field until the roster fell apart. When the Dolphins benched Tagovailoa and lost faith in Wilson, he started the final three games of a 7-10 season, appearing in four total and playing 179 offensive snaps. The line was competitive and unspectacular: 55 of 83 for 622 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions, with a 1-2 record and eight sacks taken.
Those three starts bought him a real conversation but not a job. Miami released Tagovailoa, then new team leadership signed Malik Willis to a three-year, $67.5 million deal and named him the starter for 2026, leaving Ewers to fight Cam Miller and Mark Gronowski for the backup spot. That is roughly the honest outcome of a seventh-round quarterback: the pocket habits travel, the arm and athletic limits still cap the ceiling, and he now profiles as a competent NFL backup who has already outperformed his draft slot.
Data note: Season lines verified on Sports-Reference (Texas, 2022-2024); the season sums match the career totals exactly (737/1,135, 9,128 yards, 68 TD, 24 INT, 36 games). His 2021 redshirt year at Ohio State is not listed as a season because he appeared in one game with zero pass attempts. Rushing totals are tracked separately and were negative for his career (140 att, -59 yards, 8 TD).