2025 Summer Scouting: Quinn Ewers

The Texas quarterback struggled again with deep-ball accuracy, but are the tools and growth in other areas good enough to overlook that?

It’s difficult to find a more divisive quarterback prospect than Quinn Ewers, and the conversation hasn’t even started. Ewers received a perfect 1.000 from 247Sports as a recruit, with evaluators highlighting his impressive velocity, pocket presence, and more as a high schooler. Ewers improved drastically from Year 1 to Year 2, but is he locked into the first round in the 2025 NFL Draft?

Career Stats (and a snippet from our upcoming Devy Guide)

Scouting Report

Ewers is a sloppy prospect with many high-end traits, both mentally and physically, that should translate to the NFL level. His arm strength is elite, especially when throwing with velocity into tight windows. His arm strength opens every level of the field, though other issues counteract that. His ability to change arm angles, combined with a quick release, gives him a massive potential to continue growing as a passer. He doesn’t have the arm elasticity of Caleb Williams, but he has more than Drake Maye, for comparison.

While there will be a narrative that he’s an inaccurate passer, that oversimplifies Ewers’ ball placement problems. In the seven games I charted (more on this later), Ewers completed:

• 80% of his passes from 20-30 yards

• 72% of his passes from 10-20 yards

• 71% of his passes from 0-10 yards

• 93% of his passes behind the line of scrimmage

His only remaining accuracy problem lies with his deep ball. He completed just 25% of his passes (6 for 24) of 30 or more yards. Some of this can be tied to his footwork, but a lot of this is just inconsistent timing on his release. He showed off an ability to throw beautiful moonballs against Alabama early in 2023. The signs are there, but he’ll need to improve drastically here.

From a processing standpoint, Ewers has it. At least “it” in the sense of “he can throw people open.” Judging how he’ll process the field in a more pro-style scheme that leaves behind some of the run-pass option nonsense is difficult, though his ability to drive the ball into the middle of the field against zone coverage is outstanding, at times. The anticipation he throws quick game and intermediate balls with makes his throws difficult to defend, and when his footwork is tight, he can be lethal. Unfortunately, the latter isn’t always true. His feet get particularly sloppy when moved off his initial spot. Most of the time, he has enough arm to compensate for the slop. Still, his accuracy suffers when his feet are off.

Charting

I charted the first seven weeks of Quinn Ewers’ 2023 season (Week 8 was around the time I realized Ewers would likely return to school for 2024). The results were mostly positive.