Quinn Ewers addresses rumors he would transfer after 2024 season: 'It was never a thought for me'

After the 2024 season, Quinn Ewers made the choice to move on to the NFL and continue his career at the next level. This came after four seasons at the college level and there was believed to be a ton of interest in him transferring to play a fifth. 

The star quarterback started his career at Ohio State, but he truly blossomed once he transferred to Texas ahead of the 2022 season. That began a three-year partnership, where Ewers led the Longhorns to the College Football Playoff twice. 

There was some smoke regarding Ewers yearning to return to college football for another season to raise his draft stock, but there was just one problem, as Arch Manning was penciled in as the starter for Texas this coming season. If Ewers wanted to put the NFL on hold, he would’ve had to transfer, and plenty of teams were interested in that idea, but it never came to fruition. 

Speaking with the media at the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine, Ewers revealed transferring was never going to be reality for him, as he simply had too much love for Texas. Ewers wanted his legacy in college football to always be associated with the Longhorns. 

“It was never a thought for me. I wanted to leave my legacy at Texas. I didn’t want to disrupt anything that I did at Texas, and it be flipped and turned any other way,” Ewers said, via CJ Vogel of On Texas Football. “I just wanted to be remembered, in college, at Texas.”

Alas, Ewers will certainly be remembered fondly by Texas fans, as he helped lead a transformation for the program, helping steady the ship during their move to the SEC, and compete for championships once again. Moving forward, the Longhorns are set up for sustained success, and that has a lot to do with Ewers’ play over the past few seasons. 

All told, Ewers played and started in 36 games. He amassed 737 completions for 9,128 yards and 68 touchdowns while throwing 28 interceptions. He recorded a 64.9% career completion percentage.

As for his NFL future, ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. is of the opinion that he could be a solid option for a team at the next level, but he certainly has some areas where he’s going to have to improve moving forward.

“With Quinn Ewers, if you could bottle some of those games and some of those series and some of the throws, and say, ‘Boy, if we could just level that off,’” Kiper said, via First Draft. “I want him to put the foot on the gas. And I say, foot on the gas with that arm. I didn’t see a lot of muscle throws.

“In the NFL, you got tight windows. You got to muscle those throws in there, right? You got to stick it in there. And the thing is, he can do it, but a lot of times he’s trying to just loft it out there, lay it out there. And to me, sometimes you got to go 80 miles an hour, OK? You can’t go 30. Gotta go 80.”

Moving forward, it’ll be fascinating to see what the future holds for Quinn Ewers. Regardless, he’ll always be held in high esteem by Texas fans, and the quarterback will carry the lessons learned with the Longhorns into his future at the NFL level.