Quinn Ewers opens up on his relationship with Arch Manning

Texas has one of the most loaded quarterback rooms in all of college football, featuring Quinn Ewers, Maalik Murphy and Arch Manning, among others. But according to Ewers, the starter for 2023, it’s a congenial vibe among the Longhorns signal callers.

Manning came to Texas this offseason with plenty of fanfare as the third generation of Manning’s takes on American football. But any speculation that there could be friction with Ewers, who came to Texas with oodles of fanfare, himself, was shot down by the Longhorns starter.

“Me and Arch are great buddies. I’ve known him — I got to know him pretty well in the recruiting process. We’ve only grown in our relationship. Like you said, we have a great relationship,” Ewers said at the Manning Passing Academy. “We get along well. The whole quarterback room is just such a great group of guys. No one is trying to undercut somebody or try to get ahead in certain ways. We are just a good group of guys, great buddies. We’ve been hanging out together. Those are like my best friends, the people in the quarterback room.”

Ewers is in attendance at the Manning Passing Academy as a college counselor. Unsurprisingly, Manning is also present at his family’s passing camp, held on the Nicholls State campus.

Ewers was asked if he and Manning have bonded over their shared experience as one of the top high school quarterbacks in the country.

They haven’t broached that topic much, Ewers said. They have, however, discovered they’re both quite similar in terms of their general disposition and way of going about things. They both care mostly about football and the people that matter to them, Ewers said. 

“Yeah, obviously Arch was highly recruited out of high school, obviously got a huge last name in the game of football. But yeah, we don’t really talk about it. You know, obviously like you said, we both understand where we kind of came from and our upbringing,” Ewers said. “And I think both of us, we were kind of raised in a great way to where we have great people in our corner which allows us to kind of stay within ourselves and not branch out into all the commotion that’s going on in the outside world. We just kind of focus on what’s going on with us and our family and our good buddies.” 

The Bengal Tiger’s Shea Dixon contributed to this article