The Dodge family knew Ewers, Klubnik would meet again on a big stage

Riley Dodge says he’s watched former pupil Quinn Ewers transform from a boy into a man over the last 18 months as the quarterback at Texas. Todd Dodge found out how much of a man Cade Klubnik was when he served up the ninth grader to the Westlake varsity defense during a three-man quarterback battle that Klubnik eventually won. 

Ewers and Klubnik met as five-star, can’t-miss products as juniors in the 2020 Class 6A Division II state championship game with Todd coaching Klubnik at Westlake and Riley, Todd’s son, leading Ewers and Southlake Carroll. It was Klubnik’s Chaparrals that emerged victorious, thanks in part to two Ewers interceptions that landed in the waiting arms of Michael Taaffe, now his teammate on the Forty Acres.