Despite injury, Texas QB Quinn Ewers still found a way to fire up the Longhorns from the sideline
Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers doesn’t have to be on the field to still impact the top-ranked Longhorns. As the program’s leader, teammates are always watching their top signal-caller. Ewers sat out of last Saturday’s blowout win over Louisiana-Monroe with a strained abdominal muscle. But he was still active on the sideline, wearing an earpiece to […]
Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers doesn’t have to be on the field to still impact the top-ranked Longhorns. As the program’s leader, teammates are always watching their top signal-caller.
Ewers sat out of last Saturday’s blowout win over Louisiana-Monroe with a strained abdominal muscle. But he was still active on the sideline, wearing an earpiece to listen to the play calls going to backup quarterback Arch Manning. And Ewers was active with teammates, too.
During a fourth quarter timeout, Ewers called the team together on the sideline and turned into a hype man, getting the players juiced for the final stretch run in a game that more or less over.
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Normally, defensive back Jahdae Barron is the team’s hype ringleader, but he moved over so Ewers could have his say.
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“Different guys, they talk and stuff like that,” Barron said Monday. “But we’re looking at Quinn, like, c’mon. It was just the juice level, the excitement that he had for everybody paying and just rooting on Arch the entire game. You love that type of thing from a leader.”
Ewers doesn’t strike most as a hype man, but everything a Heisman contender does is watched by everyone else in the locker room.
“It just shows you that whatever he’s doing that week he was injured, he was still leading the team,” center Jake Majors said. “He still brings that energy when he’s on the field. I see that energy. It just shows you that he’s aways consistent in who he is as a person.”
Linebacker David Gbenda agreed. “Even in the status right now with everything that’s going on surrounding him, he’s still out there leading and giving us his best. That just speaks of him as a person and a leader. Honestly that just made me respect him a lot more than what he’s already brought. Because we go behind 3.”
Ewers is listed as questionable for this week’s game against Mississippi State, coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday. The Longhorns will update his status on Thursday when the team releases its first SEC-mandated injury report.
If Ewers doesn’t play, the Longhorns have Manning waiting in the wings.
“He’s got to do enough to show me he can play,” Sarkisian said. “I know that’s probably not the answer you wanted, but that’s what I mean. We’ve got a game plan. Can he execute the game plan? I hate to pare it down to that. But that’s really the truth.”
