247Sports' Chip Brown reported that Ewers could have made $8 million in NIL money to stay for another season. On a recent episode of " Josh Pate's College Football Show ," Josh Pate had a message for those giving Ewers grief for leaving early.

Four years later, it's hard to remember just how heralded Quinn Ewers was as a recruit. He became the first recruit at any position since 2016 to earn a perfect 1.0000 rating in the 247Sports composite,

Quinn Ewers, the starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns in back-to-back College Football Playoff appearances, came off the board even later. He didn’t hear his name called