Steve Sarkisian provides update on Quinn Ewers: "he's planning on practicing today"
After Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers was seen favoring his ankle as a result of a hip drop tackle against Kentucky, Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian provided an update on his starting quarterback during his regular Monday press conference.
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“I think he’s doing okay,” Sarkisian said Monday. “Our schedule is a little bit different. We’re normally a morning practice team, but with this being Thanksgiving week and no school, we’re not practicing until this afternoon. I’ll have a better understanding when I get to see him really on the field, but he’s planning on practicing today. We’ll see how that goes.”
Ewers had gotten dinged up during the course of the game, as Sarkisian explained postgame.
“Quinn, on kind of a scramble up the middle, he gotten — I guess you could call it the hip drop tackle as they refer to it in the NFL,” Sarkisian said. “It’s not illegal in college football. It just kept tightening up on him. At that point, I didn’t think it was worth having to expose him with the way we were starting to run it.
“The ball wasn’t clean in the third quarter, so let’s get to what are we doing best today.”
Ewers was 20-for-31 for 191 yards and two touchdowns, plus a fumble that Kentucky returned for six points to make it 24-14. In the fourth quarter, as Sarkisian alluded to, the Longhorns ate through the clock with 17 rushes for 74 yards and one pass attempt that fell incomplete. “What we are doing best” resulted in a 15-play drive that went 85 yards and saw the Longhorns attempt zero pass attempts. It ended with Quintrevion Wisner diving across the end zone on fourth down to put the game at its final 31-14 margin.
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For the season, Ewers is 189-for-278 for 2089 yards and 23 touchdowns to six interceptions. He has worked his way up the Texas record books, currently sitting in fourth place in school history in passing yards (7745). He’s currently tied with Major Applewhite for third in passing touchdowns (60), and is third in total number of completions (633) behind Sam Ehlinger and Colt McCoy.
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Ewers and the No. 3 Longhorns will travel to College Station this weekend to battle the No. 15 Texas A&M Aggies. The game will kick off on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and will be televised by ABC.
