Texas football's Quinn Ewers is expected to be one of the top five quarterbacks picked in the 2025 NFL Draft this upcoming spring. Ewers is working to further calibrate his fundamentals as he preps for the 2025 NFL Draft Combine.
Joe Burrow reflects on the path Texas football QB Quinn Ewers took in college and at Ohio State before the NFL Draft
A former No. 1 ranked recruit in the nation in the 2021 class in the 247Sports Composite, Ewers was one of the best quarterbacks to hit the transfer portal in this decade for this sport. Ewers was a three-year starter at Texas before declaring for the 2025 draft early this offseason.
With the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2021, Ewers' collegiate career began as a highly-touted freshman quarterback competing for early reps. Regarding his path to getting a starting quarterback job elsewhere, he shared some similarities for his path in his journey for his career in college for fellow former Ohio State QB Joe Burrow.
The Bengals' first overall pick from the 2020 NFL Draft spoke with The Dan Patrick Show earlier this week, including discussions about Ewers' forming path to the NFL early this offseason.
NIL has played a much bigger role in players' decisions to transfer or commit to a school that's offered them for high school recruiting on the trail. The transfer portal and NIL opened up the path for Ewers to not only reclassify and enter college early at Ohio State but also to find his way back to his home state to transfer to the Longhorns a few years ago.
"You should take advantage of NIL. If you’re going to be able to make seven figures in college, you’ve got to go and take advantage of that. If you’re in high school and you’re getting offered that, go wherever they’re paying you the most."Joe Burrow
Burrow says he would've taken a similar path to Ewers had NIL and the transfer portal been as widely available options early in his collegiate career in the 2010s compared to the NCAA landscape shifts today.
"I probably would’ve transferred much earlier than I did, but I had to graduate to go and play. At the time, the transfer portal wasn’t a thing. I think it became a thing the next year after I transferred, but I still think you had to sit out a year."Joe Burrow
After spending the first few years of his collegiate career at Ohio State in the mid-to-late 2010s, Burrow transferred to the LSU Tigers during the 2018 offseason. Burrow had a tremendous run at LSU in 2019, before he took the next step in his journey to the NFL in the early 2020s.
If Ewers' journey to the NFL in the coming months and years is anything similar to Burrow in the earlier part of this decade for the 2020s, he'll be on a good path for the pros.