Stetson Bennett addresses rumors on flip phone, where idea came from

Stetson Bennett is a pretty straightforward person. The Georgia quarterback has a laid-back swagger, but he’s also direct. It’s certainly a unique approach by a starting quarterback in the SEC, but it’s just how Bennett is.

While Bennett doesn’t use social media unlike most college athletes, he also doesn’t use a smartphone – instead carrying around a flip phone daily. Bennett used to have an iPhone, but he ultimately decided that the device was too time consuming and a change needed to be made.

During his media availability with reporters on Saturday morning, Bennett was asked about the flip phone story and spoke in-depth about it.

“They actually still sell them at Verizon stores,” Bennett said. “Apparently a lot of old people still use them. Just in June or July, I went. I had a bunch of school coming up the next semester and had football. I was like, ‘I spend an hour on my smartphone a day. … Doing what? Doing nothing. Nothing that’s going to help me. I don’t even remember what I just did.’

“And I’ve thought about this before – I thought about it for years. I’ve got all this stuff to do, this important stuff. … Let’s not try and let that get in the way of that focus and just go get a flip phone. I still have a laptop and tablet for email and anything important like that, that I can use. I just use my cell phone for texts and calls.

“One pain in the butt is that I have to carry around a little notepad to write down stuff because I used my notes app in my iPhone a lot back in the day. It was strictly just to help me out with time management and wasting time.”

Bennett – who’s thrown for 2,638 yards, 27 touchdowns and seven interceptions this season – and No. 3 ranked Georgia kickoff against top-ranked Alabama at 8 p.m. ET Monday in the College Football Playoff national championship at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. ESPN will be carrying the national broadcast.

Quay Walker reveals quarterback Stetson Bennett uses flip phone

If you’re a Georgia fan worried about outside noise distracting Bulldogs’ quarterback Stetson Bennett ahead of Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship game against Alabama, don’t be.

According to Bennett’s teammate and linebacker Quay Walker, the quarterback doesn’t have a smartphone – or at least he didn’t prior to the start of the 2021 season.

“Stetson had a flip phone before that, before we started the season, I want to say,” Walker said earlier this week. “But Stetson don’t really pay too much attention to what’s being said of him. … We don’t either.”