Alamo Bowl offers chance to boldly step up and answer to the quarterback’s wave of...
In an up-and-down freshman season, Quinn Ewers has come under the scrutiny one would expect of Texas’ quaarterback, even down to his body language.If only the Alamodome were a little more like a ranch outside of Pleasanton. If only college football crowds were filled with blackbrush and mesquite trees, the kind with no daunting expectations and zero interest in overanalyzing a man’s body language. If only the pocket felt a little more like a deer blind.
If he sounds overly cautious, he has good reason to be. After the past couple of months, the Texas quarterback knows all too well how fleeting a clear shot can be. See, this mullet-haired 19-year-old redshirt freshman has all the talent in the world. Nobody has doubted that, ever since the national recruiting services made him the highest-rated high-school prospect since Vince Young. At Southlake Carroll, he was so good that he skipped his senior year to enroll at Ohio State, where he signed a name, image and likeness deal and spent a season as a backup before transferring to UT.
And now he understands that trying to be calm and precise in the middle of blackbrush and mesquite trees is not quite like trying to make a smart read and an accurate throw in front of tens of thousands of fans who might be waiting for him to fail.Like plenty of quarterbacks who’ve preceded him in Austin, Ewers has had his mental toughness tested. He had it tested after a miserable afternoon at Oklahoma State, where he completed only 38.
“He’s turned all the trash talking into positivity,” tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders said. “I definitely stand up for Quinn. His potential is crazy.”
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