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Texas QB Quinn Ewers Called Players-Only Meeting: 'That's Different!'

Originally posted on Texas Longhorns on SI
By Zach Dimmitt | Last updated Aug 19, 2024 5:26 PM ET

AUSTIN -- Quinn Ewers is taking his leadership skills to the next level ahead of his third season on the Forty Acres.

Steve Sarkisian revealed during Monday's media availability that the Texas Longhorns star quarterback called a players-only meeting following a recent practice, something that the head coach admitted that he "never got" from Ewers the past two seasons.

"I want to say it was either Thursday or Friday of last week. We got off the practice field, was probably Thursday, and I'd gotten a text from Quinn, I don't know, maybe 30 minutes or so after practice," Sarkisian said. "We have a team meeting the next day, I think at 2:45 or something, he said, 'Coach, you mind if we have a players-only meeting at 2:35?' and I had never got that from Quinn, right?"

The Longhorns have had an abundance of leaders on both sides of the ball over the past two seasons, which has allowed the often soft-spoken Ewers to steadily mold his leadership abilities headed into Year 3 as the starting quarterback. Sarkisian said that the team has had players-only meetings before, though they were led by former Longhorns now currently in the NFL

"In years past that might have been Jordan (Whittington) or Jaylan Ford or one of those guys, but for Quinn to be the guy that was calling the players only meeting, I thought in that moment ... that this guy is really stepping up and saying, 'hey, I want to have this meeting. I

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