Will Quinn Ewers win Ohio State QB battle after skipping high school to enroll early?

Quinn Ewers will enroll a year early to join the Ohio State football team later this month.

With top-rated quarterback prospect Quinn Ewers skipping his senior year of high school, he has an outside shot at winning the starting quarterback job on the Ohio State football team this season.

Ewers was the No. 1 overall recruit in the 247Sports Composite for 2022, but with him early enrolling, he will be reclassified for 2021. He has one more core class to complete before being able to graduate high school a full year early. Ewers should be arriving on the Columbus campus sometime later this month. What are the chances the 18-year-old wins the starting job in 2021?

Ohio State has three scholarship quarterbacks who have yet to even attempt a collegiate pass.

Ohio State football: Can Quinn Ewers win the Buckeyes starting quarterback job?

Even if Ewers gets on campus a semester before we expected him, he has an insurmountable mountain to climb to usurp Kyle McCord, Jack Miller III and presumptive starter, CJ Stroud on the Buckeyes’ quarterbacking depth chart. Miller and Stroud backed up Justin Fields last year as underclassmen, while McCord enrolled early back in the spring out of high school. He too was a former five-star.

While Ewers has attempted the same amount of college passes as have McCord, Miller and Stroud at this point, he has a steep learning curve when it comes to familiarizing himself with Ryan Day’s offense. He may be the most talented quarterback of the quartet, but either Miller, Stroud or even McCord get the starting nod in Week 1 over the incoming reclassified true freshman Ewers in 2021.

Ewers enrolling a year early is all about getting acclimated to Columbus sooner and, of course, NIL. Ewers probably won’t start the season as Ohio State’s starting quarterback but if Stroud or the others leave the door open, he could finish it.

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