Ohio State football fans had to reckon with losing one of their highest-ranked recruits ever with quarterback Quinn Ewers entering the transfer portal.
Quinn Ewers was supposed to be the crown jewel of Ohio State’s recruiting class of 2022. Instead, he reclassified and joined the Buckeyes in 2021.
That’s why his change of heart this December resulted in a trip to the transfer portal instead of a simple decommitment.
As one of the top prospects ever, Ewers was a coveted recruit. However, he was unlikely to grab the Buckeyes’ starting quarterback job any time soon with C.J. Stroud performing so impressively in 2021.
Ohio State football fans react to Quinn Ewers transfer
Now Ewers is in the transfer portal, leaving Ohio State football fans partly disappointed and partly unsurprised.
Wait so Quinn Ewers is in the transfer portal. Hate to see him go. Now all those Ohio State fans who chant bench CJ Stroud & put Ewers in, can now ctfu. 🙌
— Carrie Lynn (@OSUFAN4U2NV) December 4, 2021
It was a given that not all four scholarship QBs who were on the 2021 OSU roster would stay. The question was whether it would be two or three that left. We have the answer, at least for now. Jack Miller went in the portal earlier this week, and Quinn Ewers will enter it. 1/2
— Bill Rabinowitz 🗞 (@brdispatch) December 4, 2021
Since Kyle McCord intends to stay, that will set up a battle between him and new commit Devin Brown, to be the heir apparent to C.J. Stroud in 2023. 2/2
— Bill Rabinowitz 🗞 (@brdispatch) December 4, 2021
Quinn Ewers is yet ANOTHER example of the STUPIDITY of following multiple 5 stars to a school when you could go several other places and play immediately.
— Brandon Phoenix (@IAlsoHatepitt) December 4, 2021
Quinn Ewers had an INCREDIBLE career at Ohio State 👀
— Barstool Ohio State (@BarstoolOSU) December 4, 2021
• 2 snaps
• 2 handoffs
• $1M NIL deal
Best of luck in the future 🙏pic.twitter.com/JL3FSJiGx3
So the highest-rated recruit in OSU history (since recruiting rankings became prominent) leaves the program after playing only two plays - the final two vs. Michigan State, both handoffs.
— Bill Rabinowitz 🗞 (@brdispatch) December 4, 2021
Quinn Ewers left high school a year early, cashed $1 million in NIL deals, hardly played a down and now will have a cornucopia of schools begging to have him.
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 4, 2021
Flawless start to a college career. pic.twitter.com/TJBbJNTLpB
Wish Quinn Ewers the absolute best, but why are people freaking out about a kid who handed the ball off twice at Ohio State and whose coach said for most of the year wasn’t ready to play.
— Hayden Grove (@H_Grove) December 4, 2021
If anyone should be worried, it should be Ryan Day, but he seems to have done ok with QBs.
With Stroud in place, losing Ewers is a bigger issue for depth than actual play.
The biggest question is how Ewers’ recruitment saga will ultimately impact Ohio State’s future at the position.
Quinn Ewers was the reason Ohio State didn’t start to recruit five-star Medina, Ohio QB Drew Allar until it was too late.
— Josh Poloha (@JorshP) December 4, 2021
Now, Ewers will no longer be a Buckeye and Allar, one of the country’s fastest-rising players in the 2022 class, will be at Penn State in January.
Michigan fans definitely enjoyed the development.
Quinn Ewers transferring from Ohio State? Oof.😳
— UofmUpdates247 (@UofmUpdates247) December 4, 2021
Ewers is reportedly interested in transferring to Texas, Texas A&M or Texas Tech. He was once committed to the Longhorns. Either way it looks like he’s set on returning to his home state of Texas.
The 6-foot-3, 206-pound quarterback ranked No. 1 in the class of 2021 by pretty much every measure. He had scholarship offers from just about every program in the country and is considered a future early draft pick.
First, he needs to decide where his college football career is going to truly begin.
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