The clock just sped up for Ewers’ ability to get to the NFL
Yeah, we’re getting ahead of ourselves here, but with Ewers enrolling this fall, he now will be eligible to declare for the NFL draft a year earlier than if he had waited until January of 2022. You have to be three years removed from high school graduation to enter your name in the draft, and that would have originally been in the 2025 draft after the 2024 season. Now, it could be after the 2023 season for the 2024 NFL draft.
If he does redshirt and wins the starting job next year (still a ton to be determined), he might have just two years under center. If he doesn’t win the starting job next year, he could follow the Dwayne Haskins plan and play just one year at Ohio State, unleash an assault on the record books, then head to the NFL after just one season as the starter.
Again, there are a lot more players in all of this that result in this decision to be punted down the road, but Ewers is going to be a young gun eligible if he meets those lofty, lofty expectations.