Unpacking the Quinn Ewers Enigma

As the No. 3 Texas Longhorns prepare for their second-consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff, the quarterback room has been a chief topic of conversation.

Former consensus five-star quarterback and three-year starter Quinn Ewers’ struggles in key contests this year, specifically in the two losses to the Georgia Bulldogs, have many questioning the team’s ceiling with him as the signal caller.

There’s an old saying in football that the backup quarterback is the most popular man in town.

Longtime Texas fans don’t just know that adage, they’ve lived it.

Before he was a legend, Vince Young trotted into the Cotton Bowl in 2003 splitting time with Chance Mock. In that game, he tossed two…