In less than a week, lifelong Texas Longhorns fan Quinn Ewers will step onto Campbell-Williams field at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium as the starting quarterback for the program he’s followed since Colt McCoy was throwing touchdowns to Jordan Shipley on the Forty Acres.
“This has obviously been a dream for me. Growing up, I was a huge Longhorn fan and I’m just excited to have the opportunity,” Ewers said on Friday. “God blessed me and I’m just super humbled and excited.”
Head coach Steve Sarkisian met individually with Ewers, a redshirt freshman who spent last season at Ohio State, and redshirt sophomore Hudson Card last week to inform them of his decision to name Ewers the starting quarterback to allow him to receive all the first-team reps over the two weeks before the season opener against Louisiana-Monroe.