“I think you’ve got to be when you go through that journey like I did. His long and winding road served him well, Bennett said. McCarron as the only quarterbacks to win consecutive national championships. He accounted for six touchdowns in a title-game rout of Texas Christian at SoFi Stadium, joining Nebraska’s Tommie Frazier, USC’s Matt Leinart and Alabama’s A.J. So Bennett returned to Georgia and led the Bulldogs to a 15-0 record. Because of COVID-19’s impact on the 2020 season, the NCAA granted athletes an extra year of eligibility.
In 2021, Georgia won the College Football Playoff championship, defeating Alabama to claim Georgia’s first national title since 1980. He returned to Athens in 2019, and eventually proved the perfect fit as the Bulldogs starter. “There’s always a lot to learn as a rookie to feel comfortable in an offense, especially in your first time on an NFL field in a training camp practice,” Stafford said, “but I thought he handled himself well.”īennett’s journey from college walk-on to Rams draft pick was not typical.Īfter redshirting at Georgia in 2017, Bennett transferred to a junior college. Stafford never won a college national championship, let alone two, but he led the Rams to a Super Bowl title.īennett is “a talented kid,” Stafford said after the Rams’ first training camp workout. “To be able to come in here and just learn from him and listen has been pretty cool,” Bennett said during offseason workouts. So he grew up watching Stafford, the top pick in the 2009 NFL draft. Bennett said his parents, both Georgia alums, had season tickets to watch the Bulldogs. Now Bennett, 25, is teammates with the 35-year-old Stafford, who starred at Georgia from 2006 to 2008. Late-season addition Baker Mayfield departed for a starting opportunity with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Neither John Wolford nor Bryce Perkins proved productive replacements and they were not re-signed. In 2022, Stafford suffered a concussion and a spinal injury that limited him to nine games.
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