Dolphins QB Quinn Ewers makes feelings known on his shocking draft slide to 7th round - "I didn’t expect to fall as low as I did"

Quinn Ewers went from being a household name in college football to being picked in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL draft. The former Ohio State and Texas star was the 13th and final quarterback picked. While he was not projected to go in the first round, it was still a surprise to see how far he fell.

But Ewers is taking it all in his stride. He said he had chosen to move on from that because he is now in the professional league and is about to have the same opportunity to prove himself as anybody else.

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“I didn’t expect to fall as low as I did," he told reporters. "It is what it is at the end of the day, and I have the same opportunity that everybody else does, and I’m beyond thankful for that. I just want to go in there and play my game."

“Right now it’s my responsibility to lead all these rookies," Ewers added. "It’s my opportunity to go get noticed at the end of the day. And I’m going to try to go do that.”

Ewers was eventually picked by the Dolphins at No. 231 and is the third quarterback on their depth chart, behind Tua Tagovailoa and Zach Wilson.

Why did Quinn Ewers fall to the 7th round before being drafted by Dolphins?

While the 2025 NFL draft was dominated by Shedeur Sanders' slide into the fifth round after being tipped as a Day 1 selection, there were some other big names who fell quite a bit, too. Will Howard went below where he was prognosticated, and so did Quinn Ewers.

His agent, Ron Slavin, reportedly reached out to teams, who said they did not want a quarterback like him taken in the third or fourth round, where he was initially supposed to go.

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"They thought he was a third- or fourth-round pick, but too big of a name to be a clipboard holder, which I think is chicken sh*t," Slavin told ESPN.

The Dolphins quarterback, though, seems to have moved on from the disappointment.

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