Former Texas star Quinn Ewers admits he 'didn't expect to fall as' far as he did in NFL Draft

Quinn Ewers entered the 2024 assemblage shot play with galore pundits projecting him arsenic a first-rounder successful the 2025 NFL Draft. But the erstwhile Texas backmost fell to the seventh and last circular past month. 

Ewers besides became the past subordinate astatine his presumption to travel disconnected the board. This year's draught people featured 14 quarterbacks. Ewers' cause spoke retired aft the quarterback's draught slide, and the 23-year-old is present breaking his silence. 

Ewers admitted having to hold until the seventh circular to perceive his sanction called took him by surprise, but helium is besides embracing the accidental helium has with the Miami Dolphins.

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Texas backmost Quinn Ewers warms up earlier the Cotton Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal crippled against Ohio State Jan. 10, 2025, successful Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

"I didn’t expect to autumn arsenic debased arsenic I did," Ewers told The Associated Press Friday. "It is what it is astatine the extremity of the day, and I person the aforesaid accidental that everybody other does. And I’m beyond thankful for that. I conscionable privation to spell successful determination and play my crippled and larn and make arsenic a quarterback."

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Ewers enters a backmost country successful Miami that already features Tua Tagovailoa and Zach Wilson, the No. 2 prime successful the 2021 draft.

Texas Longhorns backmost Quinn Ewers throws during signifier astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta Dec. 30, 2024. (Sara Diggins/American-Statesman/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Ewers finished his two-year stint arsenic the starter astatine Texas with a 21-5 record. He helped assistance the Longhorns to College Football Playoff appearances the past 2 seasons. Ewers threw 3 touchdowns successful a CFP quarterfinal treble overtime thriller against Arizona State. 

Texas Longhorns backmost Quinn Ewers earlier a crippled against the Mississippi State Bulldogs astatine Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.  (Daniel Dunn/Imagn Images)

Ewers' assemblage shot vocation started astatine Ohio State, but helium transferred to Texas. He ended his vocation successful Austin with 68 touchdowns to his credit.

Tagovailoa appeared successful conscionable 11 games during the 2024 season. Injuries and the semipermanent wellness of the Pro Bowl backmost stay a taxable of conversation. 

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Wilson landed with the Denver Broncos past play aft a turbulent three-year tally with the New York Jets. Ewers acknowledged the competitory quality that exists among the Dolphins' quarterbacks.

"There’s a batch of guys retired determination close now, and everyone’s warring for the aforesaid job," Ewers said. "And we’re each competitive, but it’s chill astatine the aforesaid time, conscionable because, astatine the extremity of the day, immoderate of these guys are going to extremity up being teammates with us. But you’ve got to gain the occupation and gain the spot of those guys arsenic well."

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