Quinn Ewers receives weekly awards from Davey O’Brien, East-West Shrine Bowl

by Junna Base November 12, 2024

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers was named to the East-West Shrine Bowl’s Monday Morning Quarterback and Davey O’Brien Great 8 lists.

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The Southlake, Texas native led the Longhorns to a 49-17 win over Florida on Nov. 9, moving UT to 8-1 overall and 4-1 in conference play. Ewers completed 19 of 27 (70.4 percent) passes for 333 yards and five touchdowns, the most of his career, in 2.5 quarters of play. Ewers is the fourth SEC quarterback since 1996 with five touchdown passes of 20 yards in a conference game, joining Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa (September 28, 2019), Georgia’s Joe Cox (September 19, 2009) and Kentucky’s Jared Lorenzen (November 1, 2019). 10, 2001).

Ewers extended his passing touchdown streak to 20 consecutive games with the win – the longest active streak in the FBS, which he shares with Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders. Ewers is one of two quarterbacks in program history to throw a touchdown pass in more than 20 consecutive games, trailing Colt McCoy’s program-record streak of 29 consecutive games. Ewers’ five touchdown passes against Florida were the third-most in single-game program history, one shy of the program record of six set by Colt McCoy (Baylor, 2006) and Casey Thompson (Kansas, 2021). Ewers has now been credited with multiple passing touchdowns in six of his seven starts this season, including three-plus touchdowns in consecutive games after throwing three darts on Oct. 26 against Vanderbilt. Ewers has passed for three or more touchdowns four times this season. Ewers’ four passing touchdowns in the first half against the Gators were the most he has thrown since he scored four touchdowns in the first half of the 2023 Big 12 Championship Game.

With his 333 passing yards against the Gators, Ewers now has 7,378 career passing yards, passing Chris Simms (1999-02; 7,097) for sixth place on the program’s career passing yards list. With five passing touchdowns on the day, Ewers has 56 career passing touchdowns, passing James Brown (1994-97) for fifth place in UT history.

Ewers was named a top-10 finalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award on October 31 and was also named to the 2024 Davey O’Brien Award QB class.

The Southlake, Texas product is a third-year player who played in and started 29 games on the Forty Acres, leading UT to 22 wins. Before the season, Ewers was named to the preseason watch lists for the Davey O’Brien Award, Walter Camp Award, Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, Maxwell Award, Manning Award and Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award, in addition to being named All- Named preseason second team -SEC by the league’s media and coaches.

Ewers also earned numerous awards throughout the season, including SEC Offensive Player of the Week (September 9), Manning Award Star of the Week (September 9), and Reese’s Senior Bowl Offensive Player of the Week (September 9). ), Davey O’Brien Great 8 (September 9), Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Player of the Week (September 10) and Maxwell Award Player of the Week (September 10).

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Ewers and No. 3/3/5 Texas travel to Fayetteville, Arkansas to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium on Saturday, November 16th at 11 a.m. CT. The game will be broadcast on ABC, with Joe Tessitore (play-by-play), Jesse Palmer (analyst) and Katie George (sideline).

(via Texas Publication)

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