Draft experts are divided on where they feel former Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers might go in the NFL Draft. There have been forecasts the Southlake product will go in the middle of the 2025 NFL Draft, around the 3rd or 4th round. Some think he'll go much later.
ESPN's Ben Solak has made a predictions (paywall) of where the 2025 QB class will be drafted, and way down in the sixth round he has the Dallas Cowboys selecting Ewers.
The No. 1 quarterback in his 2021 recruiting class, Ewers spent one season at Ohio State before transferring to Texas, his home state, to play for the Longhorns. The recruiting ranking was a product of Ewers' live arm. He can generate velocity from a variety of arm angles, and he has a wicked quick release when throwing in rhythm.
The issue is that nothing else crystallized for Ewers over his time in college. He has worrisome sprays of poor accuracy to all three levels of the field, he struggles to throw receivers open against tight coverage, and he often doesn't seem to understand what defenses are doing to him. He'll climb up into pressure when he should feel it and escape the pocket, and he'll throw right into coverage traps when he should get his eyes to the backside. So Ewers remains a developmental prospect in that he has the physical tools of an NFL quarterback but lacks many of the necessary skills to reliably play the position well. - Ben Solak, ESPN
Solak projects that Ewers will the final QB off the board in the NFL Draft. If Ewers is taken in the 6th round, he will get a rookie contract with about $4.3 million. That number is significantly less than Ewers made on the 40 Acres.
Ewers earned a $1.4 million NIL deal with GTSM before transferring from Ohio State to Texas. He then earned another approximately $6 million while in Austin. That included deals with Panini, Hulu, Dr. Pepper and EA Sports.
As for getting picked by the Dallas Cowboys, time will tell. Dallas just traded for New England QB Joe Milton to back up Dak Prescott. Ewers would slot in as the third string QB and be able to ease into his NFL career and learn on the job.
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