"It sucks man" - Quinn Ewers opens up on Jack Sawyer's scoop and run that took away the game from Texas 

Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers was unable to guide his team to the national championship game after the rampant Ohio State Buckeyes won a thrilling Cotton Bowl Classic 28-14. Ewers tallied 283 yards on 59% completion resulting in two touchdowns and one interception in the game.

The divisive Ewers was at the center of the defining moment of the game when he was sacked by Buckeyes defensive end Jack Sawyer with 2:13 left in the game, ending any hopes that the Longhorns had to make a comeback.

Sawyer was Ewer's roommate at OSU before the quarterback transferred to Texas and during his postgame news conference, he addressed the play by the defensive end.

"I felt him, I started drifting away and I thought I was gonna be able to get the ball off before he got there obviously," Ewers said.

"It's not like I tried to give them the game but I saw Jack running with the ball down the sideline and you know it sucks man, we know he's a great player, great individual, great person. We were roommates when I was up at Ohio State. It sucks but Jack's a great player and he made a great play," he added.

During the same postgame press conference, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, who has always supported Quinn Ewers, lavished praise on his quarterback.

"I’m super proud of Quinn," Sarkisian said. "He’s taught me a lot. Probably unknowingly to him. What he went through every year, dealing with injuries.

"What he goes through, where, I don’t know if he’d ever live to the standards of what everybody thinks he’s supposed to be. But, at the end of the day all he did was show up every day and work and be a great leader and be a great teammate," he added.

Quinn Ewers advised to return to college football

During Monday's segment of "The Rich Eisen Show," The Athletic's draft expert Bruce Feldman revealed that he expected Quinn Ewers to enter the transfer portal from the Texas Longhorns.

"My guess is he will be in the portal," Feldman said. "He's in a similar situation to Cam Ward and some other guys where the NFL doesn't look at him as a top 50 pick. They look at him as maybe a third, fourth-round quarterback.

"The concerns you hear from scouts and definitely SEC coaches who respect him and think he has good arm talent and think he's a really good college football quarterback is when he has to ad-lib and improvise is when the mistakes really happen," he added.

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Both college football and NFL fans will be eagerly awaiting Quinn Ewer's final decision on his future after the Longhorns' exit from the College Football Playoff and with the specter of backup QB Arch Manning looming in Texas.

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