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Georgia landed another five-star recruit earlier this week, this one the top quarterback in the 2026 high school recruiting cycle.
While this would be a momentous event at most programs, the commitment of Jared Curtis has become a cause for pause at Georgia.
Why can’t the Bulldogs under coach Kirby Smart develop and keep five-star quarterbacks?
Jacob Eason. Justin Fields. Brock Vandagriff. Three big recruiting swings, three misses.
If you include Dylan Raiola – committed to Georgia for much of the 2024 recruiting cycle before flipping late to Nebraska – the Bulldogs and five-star quarterbacks is an ugly adventure.
There’s nothing simple or easy about this strange hiccup in the nearly flawless Georgia recruiting system.
Eason won the starting job in Smart’s first season of 2016, was injured in the first game of 2017, and never played another significant down before transferring to Washington.
Speaking of significant snaps, Vandagriff never took one in his three seasons before transferring to Kentucky. Then there’s Fields, the most prominent of Smart’s five-star recruits.
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Smart was already deeply invested in Jake Fromm, the four-star recruit who took the job in 2017 from an injured Eason and never lost it. The uber-talented Fields was a backup in 2018 – and became a two-time All-American – at Ohio State.
This brings us to Curtis, the top quarterback in the 2026 class, and according to some rankings, the No.1 player overall. And this five-star recruitment has had its…
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Publish date : 2025-05-09 17:47:00
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