{"id":644298,"date":"2026-05-15T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644298\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:04:17","slug":"report-nate-bargatze-lands-vanderbilt-qb-jared-curtis-movie-role-as-part-of-nil-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644298\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Nate Bargatze lands Vanderbilt QB Jared Curtis movie role as part of NIL deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt<\/a> executed one of the real coups of the 2026 recruiting cycle when it flipped Five-Star Plus+ quarterback prospect Jared Curtis<\/a> from Georgia<\/a>. And it might have comedian Nate Bargatze to thank for it, at least in part.<\/p>\n

Bargatze famously made a pitch to Curtis live on College Gameday<\/a> last season. And since then, he has put Curtis into a movie as part of his NIL deal.<\/p>\n

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Outkick founder Clay Travis reported<\/a> that Bargatze put Jared Curtis in his new movie, \u201cThe Breadwinner,\u201d as part of Curtis\u2019 NIL deal with the Commodores. Curtis has a small part, wearing a Vanderbilt baseball cap while car shopping in the movie.<\/p>\n

Travis joked that it\u2019s now Matthew McConaughey\u2018s move. McConaughey is a huge Texas<\/a> supporter, obviously, also in the film industry.<\/p>\n

As for the Curtis deal, it\u2019s a cool setup and the way NIL is supposed to function. You can check out a trailer for the movie below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Clark Lea talks Jared Curtis in spring ball<\/p>\n

Look no further than the start of Clark Lea<\/a>\u2018s first press conference of Spring practice for insight into what true freshman quarterback Jared Curtis means to Vanderbilt. And as the 2026 Five-Star Plus+ recruit began his Commodores career, the Nashville Christian product was already the talk of the town.<\/p>\n

In fact, the first three questions Lea received during an early spring press conference were all about Curtis, something the sixth-year \u2018Dores head coach picked up on pretty quickly. But despite that intense scrutiny, Lea was determined to allow his uber-talented five-star QB to grow and develop at his own pace.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got arm talent and he\u2019s got confidence to make the throw. Again, this is going to be a different speed for him \u2013 both the defensive backs and how they close space, and the defensive line and how the pocket crushes. So he\u2019s going to have to learn through mistakes,\u201d Lea said of Curtis. \u201cWe\u2019ve had opportunities through our OTAs for him to throw, and as you\u2019d expect, there are times he\u2019s clutched the ball too long. There are times he\u2019s tried to go across the field late, and those things end up in interceptions.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, learning those lessons, and, again, for us \u2013 I realize just out of the gate here I think it\u2019s been Jared Curtis, Jared Curtis, Jared Curtis \u2013 but for us, we\u2019re not going to have that level of microscope on him every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

On3\u2019s Alex Byington also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt executed one of the real coups of the 2026 recruiting cycle when it flipped Five-Star Plus+ quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,232956,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-644298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-jared-curtis-26-nashville-christian-school","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644298","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=644298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}