The Dolphins are done with the Quinn Ewers experiment. Miami selected the former Texas star with the 231st overall pick in the 2025 draft — the 13th QB off the board after a college career that saw him throw for over 9,000 yards and lead the Longhorns to back-to-back College Football Playoff appearances. Now, with barely a full offseason gone by, he's on his way out of South Florida.
The #Jaguars are trading for #Dolphins QB Quinn Ewers, per me and @MikeGarafolo
Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo broke the news that Jacksonville is landing Ewers, and Joe Schad confirmed the deal shortly after, adding that Miami will likely turn around and add another quarterback — one who's either already on the street or about to be. Schad even floated the what-if: Mike McDaniel running it back with Ewers as QB2 in 2026, a scenario that's now dead on arrival.
Adam Schefter later nailed down the compensation: Jacksonville is sending Miami a 2028 sixth-round pick for Ewers, an update from the original day-3-for-day-3 swap report. Mike Garafolo pointed out the irony in his own post — the previous Dolphins regime traded a 7th to move up for Ewers, and the current regime just flipped him for a 6th, a modest return for a QB with actual starting experience under his belt.
Compensation update: Jaguars officially are sending a 2028 sixth-round pick to the Dolphins in exchange for QB Quinn Ewers.
For the Jaguars, this is a quiet, low-cost move to stash a capable arm behind their starter — Rapoport noted Jacksonville had been working the phones on backup QBs before landing on Ewers specifically because he's actually played meaningful snaps. It's a small transaction in the grand scheme, but it's the kind of depth add that can matter fast if a starter goes down in October.
For Miami, it's another data point in Jon-Eric Sullivan's ongoing roster teardown. A seventh-round flier that didn't pan out gets flipped for a better pick before it costs a roster spot — nothing sentimental about it. Beat writers were already having fun with the nickname potential, with Greg Auman dubbing the newly Ewers-equipped Jaguars roster the "Jagewers."
Just call 'em the Jagewers ...
The bigger question now is who Miami turns to behind Tua Tagovailoa. Schad's report suggests the Dolphins are already eyeing a replacement, possibly someone cut loose elsewhere over the next few weeks as rosters get trimmed toward final numbers. Ewers, meanwhile, gets a fresh shot in Jacksonville to prove the arm-strength concerns that dropped him to the seventh round in the first place were overblown.