“Be where your feet are.”
It’s the type of aphorism that coaches love, and Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers is fully living it for the first time in his playing career.
He’s certainly not looking backwards — the mullet Ewers used to wear, long his signature haircut, is in the past and isn’t coming back, he told reporters on Wednesday.
More importantly, Ewers is no longer looking so far forward, either. He’s no longer in a hurry to fulfill his lifelong dream of playing in the NFL, a pursuit that he put off for another year in January when he announced his return to the Forty Acres for a third season as the starting quarterback, a decision made in the wake of the Sugar Bowl loss after percolating in the back of his mind for some time.