DALLAS — Quinn Ewers made his debut Wednesday at SEC Media Days looking like he’d left his horse hitched in front of the Omni. Boots, hat, longhorn belt buckle. As fashion statements go, it beat his famous mullet.
Give him that. But Steve Sarkisian seemed to like it, and not because he’s big on cowboy themes. He liked the swagger to pull it off.
The swagger is different. Swagger is good. Case in point: Going into his third and doubtless final season at Texas, Ewers has evolved from a former Southlake Carroll guy having a bad hair day “just trying to survive,” as Sark put it, to a playoff quarterback to the cover of a video game.
To be precise, he shares the cover of EA Sports College Football 25, released this week after a 10-year hiatus, with Michigan’s Donovan Edwards and Colorado’s Travis Hunter, potentially the best two-way college football player since Charles Woodson. Of course, making the cover of a video game — technically, two covers if you count the deluxe edition shot from the Cotton Bowl tunnel — doesn’t necessarily mean you’re the nation’s best quarterback. Carson Beck of Georgia is considered a better pro prospect, as is Shedeur Sanders, Hunter’s teammate and Deion’s progeny.
But the kind of exposure a video game evokes says something about how far he’s come, even if it doesn’t guarantee how far he takes Texas in its maiden SEC season. First things first, though: What’s it like to play yourself in a video game? “The throws I k.
