Quinn Ewers, Dolphins Agree to 4-Year Rookie Contract After 2025 NFL Draft

The Miami Dolphins and quarterback Quinn Ewers have agreed to a four-year rookie deal, NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reported Thursday.

The news means Ewers will be under contract when Dolphins rookie minicamp takes place from Friday to Sunday this weekend.

Ewers was selected in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL draft with the No. 231 overall pick. The former Texas quarterback is the first reported member of the Dolphins' draft class to sign his rookie contract.

Ewers' contract value was previously estimated to be approximately $4.3 million by Over the Cap.

247Sports' Chip Brown previously reported that Ewers had turned down an $8 million NIL offer to enter the NCAA transfer portal ahead of his final year of college eligibility.

Ewers was the final quarterback taken in his NFL draft, with 13 other signal callers taken off the board before the Dolphins added him with one of their final two picks.

The former Texas starter was left on the board after two FCS quarterbacks Tommy Mellott, soon to be a wide receiver, and Cam Miller, as well as a quarterback recovering from January ACL surgery in Indiana's Kurtis Rourke.

He will still ultimately get a shot at the NFL in Miami, where he will join a quarterback room currently staffed by Tua Tagovailoa and Zach Wilson.

Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel told reporters after the draft he believed Ewers would benefit heading into his first NHL season from the similarities between the Longhorns and Dolphins offensive schemes.

"I think one of the things that gives him an advantage as a rookie, just getting started, is that overlap. The way that he orchestrates the offense from the motion, timing, and really anticipating things, there's a fit there. So we're excited to get into the program and start working," McDaniel said.

Given Tagovailoa's injury history and Wilson's lack of NFL starts since 2023, there is a chance Ewers could use that familiarity climb the depth chart with a strong offseason.