UGA Football: What Did Kirby Smart Say About the Quarterback Competition?

“I think it’s hard to say who has a stronger arm. I think those two guys would argue about who has a stronger arm because I don’t honestly know who has a stronger arm just from what we’ve seen in the past. You have to see those guys play in game action. I think they both have really good pocket presence. Brock (Vandagriff) is a really good athlete. Brock has added about 14 or 15 pounds of muscle. He wanted to get back to 215 out of his 203, 204 playing range. And Carson (Beck) has lost a little weight from 220, so they’re right at the same size. It’s hard to say the differences in those two. I don’t think people give Carson enough credit for being a good athlete. He was a really good baseball player. He has great movement skills. He is not going to run as fast as Stetson (Bennett). I think Brock is a good athlete. He can see the field. Carson has probably played a little more, but both those guys are good. I wouldn’t count Gunner Stockton out of this thing because this kid is talented, smart. I got to see him on the scout team the entire year and really saw him grow. I mean, when Monken left, I asked him about where he thought our quarterback room was. He was very adamant that we have three really talented, young quarterbacks, and Mike inheriting that room certainly feels that way, too. I’m excited about those guys.”

“That’s definitely a hypothetical. What would I like? I would like having a guy that started for a year or two years being your quarterback. We don’t have that, so we a competition. So we have to figure out who is going to perform the best in that competition, and that comes through scrimmages. You know, we have I think three Saturday scrimmages, including G-day. That will go a long way to telling where they are, but that never is the total story, right? We have two spring practices before we play our first game, 26 or 28 practices in fall camp that will tell a lot more.”