{"id":1460,"date":"2024-09-23T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2024-09-23T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:33:00","slug":"texas_qb_ewers_back_in_practice_but_still_questionable_for_no_1_longhorns_sec_opener-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"Texas QB Ewers back in practice but still questionable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers practiced Monday but remains questionable to play with an abdomen strain when the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-longhorns-ranked-no-1-056ec70f77c04bea6ea0348efae0eb2f\">No. 1 Longhorns<\/a>\u00a0face Mississippi State in their Southeastern Conference opener, coach Steve Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"keypointsbox\" style=\"text-align: left; width: 95%;\">\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<h4 style=\"text-indent: 10px;\"><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Ewers is back in practice but remains questionable to play this week with an abdomen strain for the SEC opener\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The No. 1 Longhorns face Mississippi State for the Southeastern Conference opener<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Ewers sat out Saturday\u2019s 51-3 win over Louisiana-Monroe.\u00a0And if Ewers can&#8217;t play Saturday against Mississippi State (1-3, 0-1), it will be Manning leading the Longhorns (4-0).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Speaking about Ewers, Sarkisian said \u201cI want to make sure he\u2019s healthy enough to play at a high level.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h5>\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-arch-manning-start-ewers-8a35bcc3b3fb1513f2aa32fc539305d7\">Ewers sat out<\/a>\u00a0last weekend&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-manning-louisiana-monroe-score-1b6e9e6655f8049f44c5ef52bcd7c4f5\">51-3 win over Louisiana-Monroe<\/a>, and Arch Manning threw two touchdowns and two interceptions in earning his first career victory as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>And if Ewers can&#8217;t play Saturday against Mississippi State (1-3, 0-1), it will be Manning leading the Longhorns (4-0) into the program&#8217;s first game in the SEC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-ewers-manning-5814b956c10e31fc82e4acc9d6459814\">Ewers was injured<\/a>\u00a0in the first half of Texas&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-utsa-score-arch-manning-e775a279816aff198aa9812b8160944f\">win over UTSA<\/a>. He at first laid on the field, then walked slowly to the sideline medical tent before leaving the field. He was on the sideline with the Longhorns on Saturday but was not in uniform.<\/p>\n<p>The injury came on a long pass and was not caused by contact, Sarkisian has said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Ewers) has got to do enough to show me he can play. Can he execute the game plan?\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cI want to make sure he\u2019s healthy enough to play at a high level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ewers \u201ckeeps getting incrementally better,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkisian said he trusts Ewers to be honest with him about any pain he feels when deciding whether to play this week or continue to rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beauty of it for Quinn and I is our time together (and) him having to come back from injuries previously,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n<p>Ewers has missed two games each of the previous two seasons with sternum and shoulder injuries. After playing Mississippi State, Texas will have a week off before facing rival Oklahoma in the annual matchup in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Ewers may be anxious to get back on the field. He opted to return to Texas this season instead of entering the NFL draft last spring, and has garnered early-season attention as a Heisman Trophy contender after Texas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-michigan-score-ewers-d140dffcf01078793e9f40cb71f8dbc0\">dominated Michigan<\/a>\u00a0in Week 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHim being honest with me, is in his best interest, in our best interest,\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cI\u2019ll do everything in my power to put him in the best position to be successful if he plays. And if he doesn\u2019t, what does that look like moving forward?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manning, a second-year freshman, has shown he is more than capable of leading Texas if Ewers remains out another week.<\/p>\n<p>He dazzled with five touchdown passes and a 67-yard touchdown run against UTSA. His game against Louisiana-Monroe was an uneven follow-up with two interceptions and some missed throws in a night with a 52% completion rate. Several other passes were thrown into tight coverage.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Manning rated his first career start as a \u201cC-plus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarkisian has noted that when Ewers is healthy enough to return, he remains the starter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArch believes in his ability and he\u2019s going to take his (deep) shots. And we\u2019ve reaped the benefits of it,\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cBut he\u2019ll learn some of those explosive plays are checkdowns.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers practiced Monday but remains questionable to play with an abdomen strain when the\u00a0No. 1 Longhorns\u00a0face Mississippi State in their Southeastern Conference opener,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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