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Quinn Ewers injury: New update emerges on Texas QB's status vs. Texas A&M

Barkley-Truaxby: Barkley Truax11/24/24BarkleyTruax
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Quinn Ewers (Scott Wachter-Imagn Images)

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers is expected to be ready to play against Texas A&M in Week 14, according to Anwar Richardson.

Ewers is nursing a “mild ankle sprain,” and will be ready to go for Saturday’s game, according to the report. Richardson reported earlier on Sunday that Ewers was undergoing a “precautionary MRI” on Sunday after injuring his ankle against Kentucky in Week 13.

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His injury didn’t stop him from finishing the game, or leading the Longhorns to a 31-14 over the Wildcats at home on Saturday. He comepleted 20 of his 31 passing attempts against Kentucky for 191 yards and two touchdowns.

“It’s just a little tender,” Ewers told reporters after the win. “Just gonna do as much treatment as I can. It was around the 50-yard line and I stepped up and kind of took off running a little bit and then kind of got hip-drop tackled. And I think he kind of just rolled up on it a little, but it’s football and stuff like that happens.”

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After the game, head coach Steve Sarkisian told reporters that the injury kept nagging Ewers as the game progressed. Sarkisian said it was a “hip-drop tackle,” that caused the injury, which is a penalty in the NFL but completely legal in college football.

According to the NFL, a hip-drop tackle “occurs when a defender wraps up a ball carrier and rotates or swivels his hips, unweighting himself and dropping onto ball carrier’s legs during the tackle.”

It was removed from the NFL this past offseason after analysis showed that the specific technique causes injuries to a player’s lower extremities at a rate “20 times higher than other tackles, resulting in an unacceptable risk to player health and safety.”

This isn’t the first time Ewers has dealt with injuries this season. In Texas’ win over UTSA on Sept. 14, Ewers left the game in the second quarter after suffering an oblique injury. The injury kept Ewers sidelined for nearly a month before he returned on Oct. 12 to play in the Red River Rivalry.

On3’s Grant Grubbs contributed to this report.