Carson Beck knows Johnny Unitas is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but admits he doesn\u2019t know much more than that. Unitas was assigned No. 19 when he signed with the Colts in 1956 and went on to become the most famous No. 19 in NFL history.<\/p>\n
Beck was assigned the same number after the Cardinals made the quarterback a third-round pick in April.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked and thought, \u2018There are no numbers between 1 and 19 except 19. Oh no,\u2019\u201d Beck told Darren Urban of azcardinals.com. \u201cAll my friends started making fun of me. Not many quarterbacks have 19. So in my head I need to turn it into a positive thing, \u2018OK, let\u2019s make it my own.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Beck wanted No. 11 when he arrived at Georgia, but Stetson Bennett already had it. He was assigned 15. When he transferred to the University of Miami, Beck got to wear 11.<\/p>\n
Then, the Cardinals drafted him, and Beck said he knew Larry Fitzgerald wore No. 11. He thought, \u201cSomebody\u2019s jersey will probably be getting retired here shortly, so I don\u2019t think 11 is a good option.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, Beck will wear 19 and try to make it his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carson Beck knows Johnny Unitas is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but admits he doesn\u2019t know…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-710382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710382","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=710382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}