Star Texas Longhorns QB Turns Down Massive $8 Million NIL Deal for NFL

The Texas Longhorns are seemingly set at the quarterback position regardless of what 2024 starting QB Quinn Ewers has decided to do.

QB Arch Manning sat for two years and it appears as if 2025 will be his time. Ewers returned to the Longhorns even though he could’ve declared for the NFL draft after the conclusion of the 2023 season. After making it back to the College Football Playoff Semifinal, Ewers is heading to the NFL.

Texas Longhorns QB Quinn Ewers was offered $8 million to stay in college

According to Chip Brown of Horns 247, another school offered Ewers an $8 million NIL deal to forego the NFL draft for yet another season. Brown also reports that Ewers has earned roughly $6 million in NIL throughout his college career.

In the Horns 247 article, Ewers explains how NIL has been able to help him and his family as he manages his football career.

“I guess probably the coolest thing for me is just being able to give back to my parents,” Ewers said when asked about the initial NIL money he received. “I actually get to pay my mom a salary for helping me with my finances.”

With Ewers at the helm, Texas was just a game away from a national championship opportunity twice, a return to glory that hasn’t been associated with the Longhorns since the days of Colt McCoy and Vince Young.

CBS Sports projects Ewers as a Day 2 pick in the upcoming NFL draft, listing him as the No. 52 overall prospect. It would take Ewers four years of his rookie contract to reach around $10 million earned if he does not go in the first round.

While the proper financial decision may have been for Ewers to take the money, he expressed a desire to leave Texas on good terms.

“Texas was the only place he wanted to play college football,” Ewers’s high school coach, Riley Dodge, told Brown. “He wanted to leave Texas in good standing.”

Some fans think Ewers made the right decision, while others argue he should just be looking out for himself.

If Quinn Ewers turned down $8 million to play college football in 2025 it would go down as the worst financial decision we’ve seen since Ronald Wayne left Apple as a cofounder just 12 days after founding the company with Steve Jobs

— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) January 16, 2025

Offering him $8MM would be the second worst financial decision….

— SimpleDawg (@SimpleDawg) January 16, 2025

Turned down 8 million to be a day 3 maybe day 2 pick, sure he turned that down

— Golfin’ Goof 🏌️‍♂️🇺🇸 (@wvu185) January 16, 2025

The story was REALLY planted by Ewers’ agent

— Anthony Miller (@TacosdeTony) January 16, 2025

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