What stands out about Quinn Ewers to Steve Sarkisian
Texas head coach got a stellar performance out of his freshman quarterback Quinn Ewers in his first game back from a week 2 injury in their dominant 49-0 win over rival Oklahoma. Sarkisian spoke about his quarterback, and what truly makes him special, especially for his age and limited game experience.
“I think there’s a couple things that stand out to me with Quinn, one he’s just a natural passer,” Sarkisian said. “I know that sounds like a broad scope, of course a quarterback’s a natural passer, but I think that when he throws the ball the feel of pass comes naturally to him.”
Ewers did look like quite the natural against the Sooners, throwing for an impressive 289 yards and four touchdowns, career highs in both categories of his young career.
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“It doesn’t feel like it’s a game plan thing or it’s robotic like he did something in training with his quarterback coach, he’s just dropping back, feeling the coverage, feeling the our route, and he’s throwing the ball and he throws people open,” Sarkisian said.
Ewers performance Saturday was definitely impressive, but according to Sarkisian, what Ewers has going on from the neck up is just as impressive.
“So that’s the first part, I think the second part with Quinn that’s relatively unique for a guy that’s only played about nine quarters, he’s very calm,” Sarkisian said. “I don’t ever feel like the moment’s too big for him and he’s been in some pretty big moments already in his career with Alabama here, Red River game. He just seems very calm, very clear minded, there’s not a lot of clutter up there.”
The play of Ewers already has Longhorn fans excited, but what Sarkisian has to say about his intangibles may be even more promising, as he has the potential to grow and build even more on what’s already been an impressive start to his collegiate career.
“He knows what he’s being asked to do and he tries to operate it at a high level and then when there are mistakes, some of which you guys don’t see but we’re coaching him hard on, maybe there’s an error here, a misread there, or a poor decision, he’s very coachable in game. It’s not like he doesn’t understand what happened or it’s not like he’s defiant and doesn’t wanna do it right,” Sarkisian explained. “He’s very clear minded, he’s very coachable, and he tries to do it right the next time and as a coach that’s about all you can ask for.”
It sounds like Ewers checks all the boxes in the eyes of his head coach, and hopefully for the Longhorns, he can continue to impress and potentially lead them back to the national power that they once were.