Texas alum Quinn Ewers wants to play for NFL coach Pete Carroll and his Las Vegas Raiders

Will Ewers land in Sin City?

Soon-to-be former Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers was recently asked which franchise and coach he would like to play for as he prepares to begin his NFL career.

Ewers didn’t have to think long, according to Athlon Sports.

“Coach [Pete Carroll] would be awesome,” Ewers said, referring to the possibility of playing for the Las Vegas Raiders, which recently hired Caroll to lead the franchise. “He’s always talking about ‘compete, compete, compete.’ I think he says that word 100 times a day.”

Carroll’s winning history (namely, a Super Bowl win) and competitive mindset are Ewers’ main draws, of course. He added, “It doesn’t matter what you are doing … if you are in the building, you’re either competing or not.”

After graduating high school early and redshirting for a season at Ohio State, Ewers spent three seasons under the guidance of head coach Steve Sarkisian at Texas. Sarkisian worked under Carroll at USC during the Texas head coach’s early years in coaching at the college level, including as an offensive assistant and quarterbacks coach at USC from 2001 to 2003, and again in the same role at USC from 2005 to 2006, and, again, as an assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for the Trojans from 2007 to 2008.