Departing Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers may have slid in the 2025 NFL Draft for reasons other than football.
Most of the discourse surrounding this year’s draft centered around Shedeur Sanders’ steep slide from potential No. 1 draftee to fifth-round pick. Sanders’ free fall may have overshadowed Ewers’ own drop. The Miami Dolphins picked Ewers with the 231st pick, making him the 13th and final QB selected in 2025.
Ewers’ agent, Ron Slavin, spoke to ESPN’s Todd Archer about the NFL’s general lack of interest in Quinn. Ewers reportedly believed getting picked in the second round was a “possibility,” while Slavin “felt almost assured” that Ewers would not fall past the sixth round.
Slavin said that he contacted “half the league” to figure out why Ewers did not hear his name called earlier in the draft (profanity edited by LBS).
“They thought he was a third- or fourth-round pick, but too big of a name to be a clipboard holder,” Slavin said to Archer. “Which I think is chickens–t.”
Ewers was once projected to be a first-round pick in what is seen as a relatively weak QB crop in 2025. He led the SEC with 31 touchdowns across 14 games in his final college season. But injuries and questions about his arm strength made teams hesitant to use a high draft pick on the Texas alum.
The fact that Ewers turned down a huge NIL offer to enter the professional ranks only makes the fall more painful for him. He joins a Dolphins quarterback room that already features Zach Wilson and Tua Tagovailoa.
