Texas Football: Where On3 ranked Quinn Ewers among best QBs in 2023

The hype is really building around redshirt sophomore Texas football quarterback Quinn Ewers late this spring. Ewers was recently ranked by CBS Sports in their post-spring quarterback power rankings as the third-best player at the position in the country ahead of the 2023 season.

And while it doesn’t appear that On3 is as high on Ewers as CBS Sports, this is another media outlet that still is optimistic about the third-year quarterback in 2023.

On3 ranked Ewers as the eighth-best quarterback in the country ahead of the 2023 season. He was also the only quarterback from the Big 12 to crack the top 10. There was no mention of Kansas’ Jalon Daniels, Oklahoma’s Dillon Gabriel, or Kansas State’s Will Howard.

Ewers was also ranked as the 75th-best player in college football heading into the 2023 season by On3. He was one of four Longhorns players that cracked the top 100.

On3 tabs Texas football sophomore Quinn Ewers as one of the 8 best QBs

Here’s a look at how the rest of the list played out among On3’s top 10 quarterbacks entering the 2023 college football season.

1. Caleb Williams, USC
2. Drake Maye, UNC
3. Michael Penix Jr., Washington
4. Bo Nix, Oregon
5. Jordan Travis, Florida State
6. Sam Hartman, Notre Dame
7. JJ McCarthy, Michigan
8. Quinn Ewers, Texas
9. Joe Milton, Tennessee
10. Devin Leary, Kentucky

Some of the notable omissions from this list (outside of those mentioned in the Big 12) are Western Kentucky’s Austin Reed, LSU’s Jayden Daniels, Utah’s Cam Rising, and Mississippi State’s Will Rogers.

In terms of production on the field, Ewers is one of the least proven quarterbacks on this top 10 from On3. To some degree, it looks like On3 is taking into account talent and potential as factors more heavily in this list than you will see from most preseason position rankings from other outlets.

From what we heard this spring in camp, Ewers is making significant strides to become a more composed quarterback on the field and more of a leader in the locker room in his second year on campus. If that translates on the field this fall, the sky is the limit for Ewers and the Longhorns.