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.

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,

While he waited longer than he probably would have liked, Quinn Ewers learned his new home over the weekend. On Saturday, the Miami Dolphins drafted Ewers in the seventh round at pick No. 231. The Texas quarterback had reportedly turned down lucrative NIL offers to use his fifth year of college