Former Texas QB Quinn Ewers reportedly played through 2024 season with torn oblique
Former Texas football quarterback Quinn Ewers played through a noticeable injury throughout the 2024 season. As it turns out, the injury was even worse than previously thought.
Ewers reportedly played through the 2024 season with a torn oblique, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported Tuesday at the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine. The injury was originally thought, at least to those outside the Longhorns building, that Ewers was dealing with a strained oblique suffered during Week 3 against UTSA.
Pelissero added another interesting note, stating Ewers actually suffered the injury in Texas' second game of the season against Michigan instead of the following week. Ewers started the Longhorns' third game of the year against UTSA but was removed early after apparently injuring his oblique, allowing for Arch Manning to see extended playing time for the rest of the game and the next week against Mississippi State.
Ewers is reportedly fully healthy after receiving a few months to recover from Texas' College Football Playoff run that ended with a loss to Ohio State in the semifinals. He is also expected to throw at the NFL combine, amid multiple signal callers being expected to opt out of on-field drills in Indianapolis.
Pelissero also reported Ewers has been training in Dallas with former Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy ahead of the NFL combine, which starts on-field drills on Feb. 27 and lasts through March 3.
The 6-foot-2 quarterback completed 293 of 445 passes (65.8%) for 3,472 yards with 31 touchdowns to 12 interceptions last season while battling injury. He was solid in Texas' three CFP games, passing for a combined 807 yards with six touchdowns to three interceptions against Clemson, Arizona State and Ohio State.
Ewers, a former five-star recruit ranked the No. 1 player nationally in the 2021 recruiting class by 247Sports' Composite rankings, is expected to be in contention to be the third highest-drafted quarterback in the NFL draft, behind likely top 10 picks Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders.