Breaking down spring game for Texas QB Quinn Ewers

Overall numbers

Before I get into breaking down the spring game showing from Ewers by the numbers, I want to mention that there were some plays missed from the weekend when Longhorn Network wasn’t tuned in. In a pretty embarrassing turn of events on April 23, Longhorn Network wasn’t even able to broadcast the entire spring game.

Yet, we were able to count up around two-dozen snaps that Ewers took in the passing game in the spring game.

Including the estimated sack yardage in this game, I came up with a total of 161 yards for Ewers on the day, along with two passing touchdowns, and one interception. The one pick he tossed was intercepted by the super senior safety Anthony Cook. But we’ll dig more into that later.

A good portion of his passing yards came on a beautiful deep ball that he tossed to the former Wyoming Cowboys breakout redshirt freshman wide receiver Isaiah Neyor, which went for 72 yards and a touchdown (his first on the day).

Ewers also was sacked three times, pressured seven times, had one ball thrown away, three bad reads, just one turnover-worthy play, and 14 catch-worthy passes on 19 passing attempts that we counted up. He had 11 completions on those 19 passing attempts we counted up, but there were three that were catch-worthy where the blame could mostly fall on the receiver.

Last but not least, it is worth noting that Ewers ran play-action on seven occasions and had a designed rollout on three occasions. Play action was pretty effective for Ewers, where he registered more than half of his passing yards and both passing touchdowns.

Ewers wasn’t as effective on designed rollouts, though. He tossed one pick, had one dropped pass (by Dajon Harrison), and one catch that went for just four yards on the three designed rollouts. He was also pressured on one of them.

All in all, these numbers aren’t too shabby for Ewers. But we’re going to dive more into what happened on some particular plays from the spring game to provide more context.