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Quinn Ewers’s Creepy Hunting-Style Draft Room Had NFL Fans Making the Same Joke

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Quinn Ewers's NFL draft room is a little eerier than most.

As Day 2 of the 2025 NFL draft got underway on Friday night, the former Longhorns quarterback was seen sitting on a couch in a room full of the taxidermized heads of various animals. And there were a lot of them, from stags to goats to pretty much anything that had four legs, a coat of fur, and lived in the wild.

Uncanny, startling, a grotesque flex—whatever you want to call it, it was certainly a sight to behold.

Ewers started his college career at Ohio State before transferring to Texas, where he helped the Longhorns make the College Football Playoff in 2024. He threw for a career-high 31 touchdowns against 12 interceptions last season, though he's still considered one of the weaker prospects in this year's quarterback class and is widely projected to be a Day 2 or 3 pick.

And so, the waiting game begins. At least Ewers has, er, dead animals keeping him company.

Fans made lots of hunting jokes about Ewers's draft night setup:

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Kristen Wong
KRISTEN WONG

Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020 and has a bachelor’s in English and linguistics from Columbia University. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. She is a lifelong Liverpool fan who enjoys solving crossword puzzles and hanging out at her neighborhood dive bar in NYC.

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