Hudson Card Named Starter for Longhorns vs. Texas Tech

As expected, the Texas Longhorns are rolling with Hudson Card at quarterback against the Red Raiders

Matt Galatzan | Sep 24, 2022

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Heading into their Big 12 opener against the Texas Tech Red Raiders, the Texas Longhorns had some significant questions surrounding their quarterback situation.

And on Saturday afternoon just hours before kickoff, those questions were answered, with Steve Sarkisian naming Hudson Card the starting quarterback.

Card will be making his second consecutive start for the Longhorns after guiding the team to a 41-20 win over the UTSA Roadrunners in Week 3, despite suffering from a significant high ankle sprain.

In that game, Card completed 15 of 23 passes for 161 yards and a touchdown. Card was also solid against the Crimson Tide, completing 14 of 22 passes for 158 yards and leading the Longhorns to a go-ahead field goal with less than two minutes to go.

Card will start yet again in place of Quinn Ewers, who will miss his second consecutive game with a sternoclavicular sprain in his non-throwing shoulder.

Ewers was of course injured in the first quarter in the Longhorns' near-upset against the Alabama Crimson Tide and is expected to be out until at least next weekend when Texas takes on the West Virginia Mountaineers.

Ewers did travel with the team and has made significant progress in his recovery and appears to be ahead of schedule.

The Longhorns and Red Raiders kick off at 2:30 pm.

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Published Sep 24, 2022

MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writer’s Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014 covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.