Quinn Ewers admitted that while he was banged up in Texas‘ 31-14 win over Kentucky, he will try to work through the pain.

Early the second quarter of the Longhorns’ win, Ewers scrambled on second-and-4 before being brought down by Deone Walker, the Wildcats’ defensive tackle. After the play, Ewers was spotted heading to the locker room early, with his ankle taped in the second half of the game.

After throwing for 177 yards in the first half, Ewers threw the ball five times the entirety of the second half, with head coach Steve Sarkisian calling to run the ball the rest of the game. Once the dust settled, Ewers spoke to reporters and shared how he was feeling, especially with regards to his ankle.

“It’s just a little tender,” Ewers told reporters of how he was feeling after the game, per Yahoo! Sports. Although his ankle was bothering him, the 21-year-old reiterated his desire to play, especially as Texas gears up to play Texas A&M next week, the first time the two teams have met in over a decade.

“I’m just going to do as much treatment as I can,” he continued. “I was running around the 50-yard line, and I stepped up and took off running and kind of got rolled up on a little bit. It’s football and stuff like that happens.”

Ewers also added that the team is ready for Texas A&M, despite their matchup with Kentucky ending just hours prior. “I know this whole team is fired up for just another opportunity and especially for this one to be coming back, the tradition that it has in it,” the star quarterback said, per ESPN.

Quinn Ewers #3 of the Texas Longhorns celebrates after the game against the Kentucky Wildcats at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on November 23, 2024 in Austin, Texas

Quinn Ewers admitted he sustained an ankle injury, though he will be getting treatment on it ( 

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Although Sarkisian knew the extent of the injury, he elected not to put in Arch Manning, even as the young star began getting loose on the side. Still, the Longhorns’ head coach understood that while that type of defensive play was outlawed in the NFL, it is not in college football, leading to Ewers hurting his ankle.

“On kind of a scramble up the middle, he got – I guess you can call it a hip-drop tackle, as they refer to it in the NFL,” Sarkisian said, per Yahoo! Sports. “It’s not illegal in college football. And it just kept kind of tightening up on him. And at that point, I said that I didn’t feel like it was worth having to expose him, the way we were starting to run it.”

He added, per ESPN: “And so it was like, well, let’s get to what are we doing best today? … For weeks we’ve been talking about, well, the run game is a by-product of the passing game. Well today the run game was the key to the drill.”

Turning their attention to their upcoming matchup with Texas A&M, Sarkisian understood how big the game will be, regardless of Ewers’ status for the contest. In particular, he believes that the upcoming game has implications that extend far beyong what is happening on the field.

“I think it’s great for college football that this game with us and them is going to matter on a grander scale than just what’s happening in the state of Texas,” the 50-year-old added, according to The Dallas Morning News. “But I also know how much it means to every household in the state of Texas.”