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

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

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The Southlake, Texas, native ignited the Longhorns to a 49-17 victory vs. Florida on Nov. 9 to move UT to 8-1 overall and 4-1 in conference play. Ewers completed 19-of-27 (70.4 percent) passes for 333 yards and a career-high five touchdowns through 2.5 quarters of play. Ewers is the fourth SEC quarterback since 1996 to catch 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 ( Nov. 10, 2001).

Ewers extended his touchdown pass streak to 20 games in 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 are the third-most in single-game program history, one behind the program record six set by Colt McCoy (Baylor, 2006) and Casey Thompson (Kansas, 2021). Ewers has now been credited with multiple passes in six of his seven starts this season with three-plus touchdowns in back-to-back games after throwing three against Vanderbilt on Oct. 26. Ewers has passed for three or more touchdowns four times this season. Ewers’ four passes in the first half vs. The Gators marked the most he has thrown since spiraling four 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 on the program’s career passing yardage list. With five passing touchdowns on the day, Ewers has 56 career passing touchdowns and surpasses James Brown (1994-97) for fifth in UT history.

Ewers was named a Johnny Unita Golden Arm Award Top 10 Finalist on October 31 and was also named the Davey O’Brien Award QB Class of 2024.

The Southlake, Texas, product is a third-year player who has played in and started 29 games at Forty Acres, leading UT to 22 wins. Prior to the season, Ewers was named to 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 along with being named preseason second team All-SEC by the media and the league’s coaches.

During the season, Ewers also garnered a host of accolades, including SEC Offensive Player of the Week (September 9), Manning Award Star of the Week (September 9), 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 travels to Fayetteville, Ark., to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks at 11 CT on Saturday, November 16 inside Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. The game will be broadcast on ABC with Joe Tessitore (play-by-play), Jesse Palmer (analyst) and Katie George (sideline) on the call.

(via Texas release)