{"id":913169,"date":"2026-11-11T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/913169\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:22:16","slug":"georgia-expected-to-add-another-former-qb-to-list-of-alumni-nfl-starters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/913169\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia expected to add another former QB to list of alumni NFL starters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text-v2\">ATHENS \u2014 The same type of elbow injury that ended Carson Beck\u2019s career at Georgia could lead to his first NFL start on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">ESPN reported that Arizona starting quarterback Gardner Minshew ll \u201cprobably\u201d needs season-ending surgery on his right ulnar collateral ligament, which makes Beck next man up for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/50435608\/cardinals-wr-michael-wilson-neck-miss-rest-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN cited sources<\/a> saying Minshew is seeking additional medial opinions to confirm if he\u2019ll need the surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Beck will join Matthew Stafford as Georgia\u2019s sole alumni starting in the NFL, as Stetson Bennett lll continues in his back-up role behind Stafford with the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Beck, who spent five of his six years in college with the Bulldogs, racking up a 24-3 record as the starter in 2023 and 2024 before transferring to Miami for his final season, has yet to take an NFL regular-season snap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Beck, who spent three years as a back-up at Georgia before getting his chance to start for Kirby Smart, planned to end his career with the Bulldogs before suffering an elbow injury on the final play of the first half of the 2024 SEC Championship Game against Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Beck originally declared for the 2025 NFL Draft but was advised by his agent to return for another season of college football after realizing how the injury would affect his draft stock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u201cI didn\u2019t know I\u2019d get injured at the end of the season, I didn\u2019t know that I was going to end up coming back to college for another year, that was never the plan,\u201d Beck said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u201cIt\u2019s like, Gunner (Stockton) is next up, that\u2019s the thing, it\u2019s his turn to be the quarterback at the University of Georgia. So when I had decided to not go to the NFL and come back, I was going to go somewhere else. That\u2019s how it all worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Gunner Stockton had come on in relief of Beck to lead a 22-19 comeback win over Texas in the SEC title game and started in the 23-10 CFP quarterfinal loss to Notre Dame before Beck\u2019s decision to return to college football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Beck played his final season at Miami, leading the Hurricanes to the CFP Championship Game where they lost to Indiana, 27-21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Th Cardinals (3-6), who play host to the winless Los Angeles Chargers (0-8) at 4:05 p.m. on Sunday, had Beck in the second-string role last week after spending the first eight weeks as the emergency third quarterback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">It\u2019s a Cardinals team down two starting offensive linemen and three starting wide receivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Coach Mike LaFleur said the Arizona offense won\u2019t change if Beck takes it over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u201cYeah, I mean it\u2019s not like it\u2019s the difference between a wing-T offense and a spread offense,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/50435608\/cardinals-wr-michael-wilson-neck-miss-rest-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LaFleur told ESPN.com.<\/a> \u201cFoundationally, we\u2019re going to do a lot of the similar stuff and a lot of the stuff that Carson likes and is good at is the same stuff that Gardner likes. They like this system, and so that\u2019s not a hard one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Beck had a strong outing in the only NFL preseason game he appeared in, completing 15 of 19 passes for 188 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions after starting the game and playing the opening series of the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">The Cardinals have also signed former Denver back-up quarterback Josh Johnson to be present in a back-up role to Beck. Johnson is a 40-year-old journeyman QB who appeared in five games for Washington last season, including two as a starter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">Georgia all-time passing completions<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 Aaron Murray, 921<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 David Greene, 849<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 Eric Zeier, 838<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 Carson Beck, 628<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 Jake Fromm, 621<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 Stetson Bennett, 601<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 Matthew Stafford, 564<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 Quincy Carter, 483<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text-v2\">\u2022 Gunner Stockton, 465<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS \u2014 The same type of elbow injury that ended Carson Beck\u2019s career at Georgia could lead to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[25813,399,133523,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-913169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-carson-beck","tag-football","tag-georgia-uga-georgia-football-kirby-smart","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913169","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=913169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}