BREAKING: Texas QB Quinn Ewers offered $6 million to skip 2025 NFL Draft and enter transfer portal

BREAKING: Texas QB Quinn Ewers offered $6 million to skip 2025 NFL Draft and enter transfer portal

Not even the most successful programs in college football are immune to the rampant tampering that emerged as a side product of NIL rights and the NCAA transfer portal with a Tuesday report from On3’s Pete Nakos that an unnamed program has offered Texas Longhorns redshirt junior quarterback Quinn Ewers $6 million to transfer instead of entering the 2025 NFL Draft.

Of course, these threats are made so publicly because they are so idle — the NCAA has no enforcement mechanisms in place to combat tampering, further evidence of the governing body’s increasing toothlessness as its long decline continues.

The insight into the potential value of Ewers on the open market also reveals how much the landscape of college football has changed in the last several years — not only is Ewers more marketable as a face of college football than he would be in the NFL, a $6 million offer would almost certainly be more than he would make at the next level.

Consider the 2025 rookie pay scale for the NFL, in which only the top five draft picks will receive more than $6 million in their first season.

Even making $6 million in the fourth and final season of a rookie contract requires going in the top 13 picks and requires a long wait to reach that threshold.

Postseason feedback from the NFL Draft Advisory Board, based in part upon how Ewers finishes the season, will help influence his decision, along with the knowledge that college experience translates to NFL success at the quarterback position, one of the deciding factors in Ewers returning for the 2024 season.

However that feedback lands, it’s a virtual certainty that Ewers will not be a top-13 pick, much less a top-five pick.

From a practical standpoint as it relates to the Longhorns, when the 2024 season comes to an end, however it ends, the Texas career of Ewers will concurrently come to its conclusion with redshirt freshman Arch Manning having already waited longer than many observers thought was likely to take over the QB1 role on the Forty Acres.

To put it simply, it’s closing time for Ewers and he doesn’t have to go home, but he can’t stay here.