An NFL draft slide sometimes doesn’t come with clarity or a pinpointed explanation.

Agent Ron Slavin feels that was the case with his client and former Texas quarterback, Quinn Ewers, Bridget Reilly of The New York Post reports.

Prior to the three-day draft spectacle, Ewers didn’t expect to be among the first 32 selections with the second round being more of possibility. However, he was the 13th and final quarterback taken in the 2025 draft, getting selected with the No. 231 in the seventh round by the Miami Dolphins.

Slavin told ESPN that he reached out to “half the league” the day after the draft to find out why Ewers had such a big slide.

The answer, he said, was “chickens–t.”

“They thought he was a third- or fourth-round pick, but too big of a name to be a clipboard holder,” Slavin told Archer. “Which I think is chickens–t.”

In other words, NFL teams thought that Ewers, who was the No. 2 recruit out of high school and was ranked No. 7 of the quarterback prospects by ESPN for the draft, was too big of a name to have as the development quarterback.

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