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Is Quinn Ewers injured? Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian updates QB’s status
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Texas football quarterback Quinn Ewers suffered an ankle injury in Saturday’s game against Kentucky, Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian confirmed postgame.
The third-year starter for the Longhorns limped off the field following a Jaydon Blue touchdown in the second quarter. He never left the game, but his movement appeared to be labored.
“On kind of a scramble up the middle, he got – I guess you can call it a hip-drop tackle, as they refer to it in the NFL,” Sarkisian said. “It’s not illegal in college football. And it just kept kind of tightening up on him. And at that point, I said that I didn’t feel like it was worth having to expose him.”
Ewers passed for 177 of his 191 yards in the first half, then attempted just five passes in the second half as the Longhorns sat on a double-digit advantage in an eventual 31-14 victory. He threw for two touchdowns and also fumbled leading to a UK touchdown.
Quinn Ewers injury update
Ewers had previously missed two-and-a-half games early in the season with a strained oblique. Though he said shortly after the injury that he was still feeling it, Ewers said earlier this week that his injury wasn’t a big concern for him.
“Nobody’s 100%,” Ewers said Monday, “especially this late in the season. But that’s part of it. I feel good.”
Ewers’ ankle will now be something to watch as the Longhorns head into a massive game against Texas A&M.
“It’s just a little tender,” Ewers said of his ankle postgame. “I’m just going to do as much treatment as I can. I was running around the 50-yard line, and I stepped up and took off running and kind of got rolled up on a little bit. It’s football and stuff like that happens.”
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