If we get there, there is often a troubling ennui at the end: Is this really all there is? DanWolken reflects on Georgia QB Stetson Bennett's journey.
Whether you believe Bennett is one of college football’s elite quarterbacks, whether you believe he can make it in the NFL or whether you believe he deserved to be a finalist for the Heisman Trophy is irrelevant. At this point, the résumé speaks for itself.
“I was a walk-on,” said co-defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, who eventually became a team captain at Georgia in the early 1990s."It’s hard. You don't always get the opportunities, you don’t get the same chances. We kept trying to say he isn’t good enough, and he’s continued to prove to us he is good enough. As far as persevering through adversity and understanding that you have to continue to work even when you’re told you can’t do it multiple times, it says a lot about Stetson.
But around that time, you’d usually hear two things coming out of Georgia. The first was that Bennett had a chance to play because his running ability might be able to mask some inexperience issues on the offensive line. The second was that he had simply won the locker room, even if the coaching staff was skeptical about his ceiling.
“Their job is to win, and if they don't win they’re going to get fired,” Bennett said. “They’re making a lot of money, and they don’t want to get fired. So maybe I wasn’t the best player, right? Then it was like, as long as I’m the best player, they’re going to play me.” Then fate intervened after Georgia’s 2021 opener against Clemson, which Daniels played with an oblique injury that forced him to the sidelines for several weeks. Bennett started the next week against Alabama-Birmingham and threw five touchdowns on 12 passing attempts in a 56-7 win, but it wasn’t the box score he was interested in.
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