Since the Mississippi State game, it has been expected that injured Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers would be back for the Red River Rivalry.
Ewers strained his oblique during Week 3’s game against UTSA and has been out since. Backup Arch Manning has been playing in Ewers place.
In his regular Monday press conference, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian gave an update on Ewers ahead of the OU Game.
“I thought he looked good coming off the bye. I think if anybody benefitted from the time off, it was probably him. Quinn worked last week for three practices. He practiced again today. We’re going to monitor him daily just to kind of see how he continues to progress. But I feel good about how he was today. I feel good about him going into Saturday, but that remains to be seen.” — Steve Sarkisian
While it does sound like Ewers is trending to start in Red River, it doesn’t sound 100%.
“If we had to play today. sure (he would start) but again, that’s why it’s important that we monitor him daily, because I want to see how he responds to extended work and what that looks like, to make sure that he’s as healthy as he can be to perform.” — Steve Sarkisian
Sark will provide more updates later in the week.