Ohio State Football: Maybe Quinn Ewers made the wrong choice

The Ohio State football team got the highest-rated recruit they have gotten in program history when Quinn Ewers committed to them. He was initially supposed to be in the 2022 class but reclassified to 2021 so he could get to campus sooner and get some NIL money.

Ewers went on to collect $1 million in NIL money without ever stepping onto the field for the Buckeyes. After the 2021 season was over, he transferred closer to home. He decided to go to Texas, which is where he had committed originally before flipping to Ohio State.

Ewers then went on to play in 10 games for Texas last season but didn’t really put up good numbers. He threw for 2,177 yards, 15 touchdowns, and 6 interceptions, and completed just 58% of his passes. Quite frankly, he looked pedestrian out there for the Longhorns.

Now it looks like Ewers may have made the wrong decision to transfer to Texas. He could lose his job to Arch Manning, who is the number one recruit in the 2023 class. Manning is the son of Cooper Manning, who is a brother to both Peyton and Eli Manning.

Perhaps Ewers should have decided to stay at a school that has a track record of producing first-round picks at the quarterback spot. Had he stayed, he would have been the undisputed starter this year now that C.J. Stroud is moving on to play at the next level.

Instead, Ewers has to buckle down and make sure he plays well enough this Spring to keep himself from being benched. It’s a strange turn of events for a guy who could have been the face of the Ohio State football program and gotten developed by the best QB mind in the country in Ryan Day.

We’ll see what happens this Spring and into the Fall with the quarterback battle in Austin. Meanwhile, the Buckeyes have. QB battle of their own. Had Ewers stayed in Columbus, it wouldn’t have been a battle at all.