Texas football fans will love ESPN’s Quinn Ewers Cowboys projection

While Ewers believes he’s the best quarterback in the draft class, others might have some concerns placed on the 22-year-old regarding his mechanics and deficiencies. Some that Solak mentions is his spots of “poor accuracy,” but still mentions how he’s a “developmental prospect.”

“The issue is that nothing else crystallized for Ewers over his time in college,” Solak wrote. “He has worrisome sprays of poor accuracy to all three levels of the field, he struggles to throw receivers open against tight coverage and he often doesn’t seem to understand what defenses are doing to him. He’ll climb up into pressure when he should feel it and escape the pocket, and he’ll throw right into coverage traps when he should get his eyes to the back side. So Ewers remains a developmental prospect in that he has the physical tools of an NFL quarterback but lacks many of the necessary skills to reliably play the position well.”

“Like most former five-star recruits, Ewers will almost certainly get drafted,” Solak continued. “It doesn’t matter how poorly you played in college when you have better traits than most Day 3 picks. Dallas will feel like home to Ewers, and he could stick on the roster as a QB3 and fight for the backup job.”

At any rate, Ewers left the Longhorns after throwing for 3,472 yards, 31 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions, leading the team to a 13-win season including playoffs where they lost in the Cotton Bowl to the national champions Ohio State Buckeyes.