Senior Bowl sticking with 7 quarterbacks; Texas’ Quinn Ewers pulled out due to injury

The Reese’s Senior Bowl plans to stick with seven quarterbacks for this year’s game, executive director Jim Nagy said Monday.

The Senior Bowl added Memphis quarterback Seth Henigan to its roster last week, giving the annual college football all-star game and NFL draft showcase — set for Feb. 1 in Mobile — one more than normal at the position. The move was made as “insurance” against a possible injury that might be suffered by Notre Dame’s Riley Leonard or Ohio State’s Will Howard in Monday night’s College Football Playoff National Championship game.

“I think we’re just going to be at seven,” Nagy said. “We needed to add another guy because if, God forbid, something happens tonight, I didn’t want to be at five. So, it’s a little insurance plan.

“We added Seth Hennigan last week. I’ll say this. I’m really glad we did that because he’s one of my personal favorites. I met him at Manning Camp this summer. His dad’s a legendary high school coach in the state of Texas. He’s got a lot of the same stuff that made Bo Nix a great player.”

Henigan, Howard and Leonard join Alabama’s Jalen Milroe, Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart, Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel and Louisville’s Tyler Shough as the seven quarterbacks in this year’s Senior Bowl. The game typically features six quarterbacks, but in some past years has had as many as eight.

Nagy added that Texas’ Quinn Ewers had originally committed to play in the Senior Bowl, but pulled out due to injury following the Longhorns’ CFP semifinal loss to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. Ewers missed time earlier this season with an oblique injury.

“We did have the Texas quarterback coming, we just never announced it,” Nagy said. “We were sitting on that. And then he had to pull out right after that last game.”

In one other roster note from Monday, Nagy said that former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy will not participate in this year’s Senior Bowl following his arrest last week in connection with a fatal car accident. Lacy was charged with negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run with death and reckless operation of a vehicle following a Dec. 17 wreck outside his hometown of Thibodaux, La., in which 78-year-old Herman Hall, also of Thibodaux, was killed.

Kickoff for the 2025 Senior Bowl is set for 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 1, with television coverage on NFL Network Tickets are available at seniorbowl.com/tickets.