told ESPN<\/a> that he reached out to \u201chalf the league\u201d the day after the draft to find out why Ewers had such a big slide.<\/p>\nThe answer, he said, was \u201cchickens\u2013t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quinn Ewers throws during the school\u2019s NFL football pro day in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cThey thought he was a third- or fourth-round pick, but too big of a name to be a clipboard holder,\u201d Slavin told Archer. \u201cWhich I think is chickens\u2013t.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, NFL teams thought that Ewers, who was the No. 2 recruit out of high school and was ranked No. 7 of the quarterback prospects by ESPN for the draft, was too big of a name to have as the development quarterback.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one of the consequences discovered in the NIL era of college football. <\/p>\n
Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers (3) celebrates the team\u2019s win over Alabama in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. AP<\/p>\n
After Texas lost in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff to Ohio State, Ewers had four days to pick a new program or take the next step in his career. By opting into the draft, Ewers left behind NIL deals reportedly up to $8 million if he transferred to another powerhouse school for another year in college as Texas moves on to Arch Manning. <\/p>\n
Ewers had partnerships with several high-profile brands such as Wrangler, EA Sports,\u00a0Hulu,\u00a0Beats by Dre\u00a0and Dr. Pepper.<\/p>\n
His NFL rookie salary is estimated to be worth $4.33 million \u2014 nearly half of the opportunities he left behind.<\/p>\n
Quinn Ewers #3 hands the ball off to Quintrevion Wisner #26 of the Texas Longhorns during a game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Texas Longhorns at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium on January 10, 2025 in Arlington, Texas. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Ewers at one point was considered a potentially high pick for the 2024 draft but he returned for his junior season, during which he threw for 3,472 yards, 31 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.<\/p>\n
In Miami, he will be behind Tua Tagovailoa\u00a0and backup Zach Wilson, the ex-Jets bust who spent last season with the Broncos.<\/p>\n
Tagovailoa\u2019s contract has two more years of fully guaranteed money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NFL draft slide sometimes doesn\u2019t come with clarity or a pinpointed explanation. Agent Ron Slavin feels that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,251,6,15,16,8424,9,1078],"class_list":{"0":"post-23359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-miami-dolphins","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nfl-draft","12":"tag-nfl-draft-2025","13":"tag-nil-rules","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-texas-longhorns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114450165079034456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}