{"id":326565,"date":"2025-12-02T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326565\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:18:12","slug":"5-star-qb-jared-curtis-denies-flipping-commitment-to-vanderbilt-from-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326565\/","title":{"rendered":"5-Star QB Jared Curtis Denies Flipping Commitment to Vanderbilt from Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt’s football momentum following a 10-2 regular season could be carrying over to the recruiting trail.<\/p>\n

Hayes Fawcett of Rivals reported Monday that quarterback prospect Jared Curtis flipped his commitment from Georgia to Vanderbilt. Curtis has been committed to the Bulldogs since May but would become the Commodores’ highest-ranked recruit in program history if he did make the switch.<\/p>\n

However, Curtis denied the report and said he hasn’t spoken to either Vanderbilt or Georgia and would provide his own update:<\/p>\n

According to 247Sports’<\/a> composite rankings, Curtis is the No. 1 overall player and quarterback in the entire 2026 class.<\/p>\n

This would be a massive win for head coach Clark Lea if it does happen, especially since it would come over one of the SEC programs the Commodores are attempting to compete with in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt is not a traditional football powerhouse like Georgia but just won double-digit games for the first time in program history and inked Lea to a new six-year contract<\/a> that will presumably allow him to continue building formidable rosters.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Pete Thamel<\/a> reported the contract “includes numerous assets for the program to continue Vanderbilt football’s upward trend.”<\/p>\n

There is no better way to do that than by winning on the recruiting trail, and Vanderbilt might land the biggest win of the entire 2026 cycle.<\/p>\n

Andrew Ivins<\/a> of 247Sports highlighted Curtis’ ability to make throws to every level of the field all while having the athleticism to create with his legs if needed. He led Nashville Christian to a 12-1 record and a Tennessee Division II-A state championship as Mr. Football in the state and brings “the arm, size, creativity and swagger to emerge as a high-level distributor for a College Football Playoff contender.”<\/p>\n

Ivins pointed to former Vanderbilt quarterback Jay Cutler as a potential pro comparison in the scouting report.<\/p>\n

Quarterback has been the most important position for the Commodores this season with Diego Pavia playing his way into Heisman Trophy discussions while completing 71.2 percent of his passes for 3,192 yards, 27 touchdowns and eight interceptions to go with 826 yards and nine scores on the ground as a runner.<\/p>\n

He has thrived under Lea’s tutelage, which surely stood out to Curtis during the recruiting process.<\/p>\n

But it seems like Curtis is still in the decision-making process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt’s football momentum following a 10-2 regular season could be carrying over to the recruiting trail. Hayes Fawcett…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-326565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}