Four years later, it's hard to remember just how heralded Quinn Ewers was as a recruit. He became the first recruit at any position since 2016 to earn a perfect 1.0000 rating in the 247Sports composite,

247Sports' Chip Brown reported that Ewers could have made $8 million in NIL money to stay for another season. On a recent episode of " Josh Pate's College Football Show ," Josh Pate had a message for those giving Ewers grief for leaving early.

In 2021, Texas high schooler Quinn Ewers was one of the highest-rated quarterback recruits ever. Right now, 247Sports still lists his teenage self as tied with Vince Young and others at No. 13 on the all-time prospects list, right ahead of names like Travis Hunter, Adrian Peterson and … Arch Manning.