Quinn Ewers is passing up on some large bucks to enter the 2025 NFL Draft.
The now former Texas quarterback turned down an $8 million NIL supply to switch to a different faculty to play his remaining season of NCAA eligibility, 247Sports reported on Thursday.
The report didn’t title which faculty made the supply.
The reasoning behind the choice stems from his need to go away Texas in a superb place and his feeling that he’s able to take the following step and switch professional.
247Sports reported that NFL scouts had advised the outlet they projected that Ewers can be taken someplace between the late first spherical to early within the third spherical.
“Texas was the only place he wanted to play college football,” Ewers’ highschool coach Riley Dodge advised the outlet. “He wanted to leave Texas in good standing.”
Ewers accomplished 293 passes in his remaining season with the Longhorns for 3,472 yards and 31 touchdowns.
He departs Texas as the college’s fourth-winningest quarterback all-time with 27 win, tying Sam Ehlinger.
He trails solely Colt McCoy, Vince Younger and Bobby Layne.
Ewers introduced that he can be declaring for the draft on Wednesday and hinted that he wouldn’t be returning to Texas subsequent season when he spoke with ESPN forward of the Cotton Bowl.
The QB additionally expressed that he needed his legacy at Texas to be that of an impressive teammate.
“A great teammate that pushed his teammates to be the best that they could be, but pushed himself to be the best that he could be, so he’s able to say things like that. And, you know, one of the best to ever do it here,” he mentioned.
Regardless of the noble reasoning behind his choice to declare for the draft, he has caught flack for the choice.
Faculty soccer analyst and former Florida State quarterback Danny Kanell known as the transfer the “worst financial decision.”
“If Quinn Ewers turned down $8 million to play college football in 2025 it would go down as the worst financial decision we’ve seen since Ronald Wayne left Apple as a cofounder just 12 days after founding the company with Steve Jobs,” he wrote on X.
A primary-round draft choose is projected to get a four-year deal price $42.2 million close to the upper a part of the spherical and $13.2 million towards the underside, in accordance with 247Sports.
The worth continues to drop the later into the draft a participant is picked.
