Ex-Texas star's agent slams NFL over quarterback's draft slide

Quinn Ewers took a accidental connected going to the NFL alternatively of transferring from the Texas Longhorns to further his assemblage shot career.

Ewers saw himself descent from a mid-draft projection to the last circular past week. The Miami Dolphins selected Ewers successful the seventh round. He volition apt person to vie with Zach Wilson for the backup backmost job.

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Texas Longhorns backmost Quinn Ewers (3) throws the shot during signifier astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta, Georgia, connected Dec. 30, 2024, up of the College Football Playoff Quarterfinals. The Longhorns volition play the Arizona State Sun Devils successful the Peach Bowl connected New Year's Day. (Sara Diggins/American-Statesman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

The erstwhile Texas prima and his cause Ron Slavin opened up to ESPN for a communicative astir his draught slide. Slavin revealed their mindset arsenic the hours and minutes ticked distant during the draft. He said helium thought Ewers could person had a bully accidental to onshore with the Las Vegas Raiders oregon Seattle Seahawks connected Day 2. But the alleged "nightmare" script occurred erstwhile The Raiders passed connected the backmost for 2 FCS guys, a part little than the apical successful assemblage football.

Slavin said helium had spoken with 2 teams earlier the seventh circular started – the Dolphins and the Dallas Cowboys. That’s erstwhile Miami yet took him. Slavin told ESPN helium had reached retired of astir "half the league" to spot wherefore his lawsuit fell from a fourth-round projected each the mode to circular seven.

"They thought helium was a third- oregon fourth-round pick, but excessively large of a sanction to beryllium a clipboard holder," helium said. "Which I deliberation is chickens---"

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Quinn Ewers #3 of the Texas Longhorns throws the shot during the archetypal 4th against the Clemson Tigers successful the Playoff First Round Game astatine Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium connected December 21, 2024, successful Austin, Texas. (Jack Gorman/Getty Images)

Ewers said helium volition usage the draught flimsy arsenic fuel.

"It's decidedly a batch of information that comes with it, particularly conscionable being the past (quarterback) drafted," Ewers said. "I inactive person the precocious expectations for myself, but conscionable from the extracurricular looking in, this is the archetypal clip successful my beingness to not person that overmuch expectation. There's decidedly information and fuel. A batch of it."

Ewers was 1 of the apical quarterbacks successful precocious schoolhouse erstwhile helium initially committed to Ohio State. He transferred to Texas earlier the 2022 play and spent the remainder of his vocation there.

Texas Longhorns backmost Quinn Ewers warms up arsenic the Texas Longhorns hole to play the Clemson Tigers successful the archetypal circular of the College Football Playoffs. (Sara Diggins/American-Statesman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

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He had 3,472 passing yards and 31 touchdown passes successful 2024. The Longhorns made it to the College Football Playoff, lone to beryllium eliminated by Ohio State successful the semifinals.

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