Georgia QB Carson Beck is betting co-favorite for 2024 Heisman
Georgia going to get plenty of love as the nation’s No. 1 team going into the 2024 season and the primary reason for that is the return of Carson Beck. After a stellar first season as the Bulldog starting signal caller, Beck turned down a chance to jump to the NFL Draft and elected to return to Athens for one more season.
According to DraftKings, he is also the co-favorite to win the 2024 Heisman Trophy. Beck has +900 odds, meaning if you bet $100 on him to take home the trophy, you win +900. Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers has the same odds and the two will share the same field on October 19 when Georgia travels to Austin to take on the Longhorns.
Beck spent three years at Georgia before he got his first start. After being named the starting quarterback in 2023 preseason camp, Beck started all 14 games last season. He got better as the season went on. He set a Georgia record for completion percentage at 72.4 percent while throwing for 3,941 yards 24 touchdowns and six interceptions. He also averaged 9.5 yards per attempt.
Had the Jacksonville native played the second half of the Capital One Orange Bowl drubbing of Florida State, he would have likely become the school’s second ever 4,000-yard passer, something Stetson Bennett accomplished for the first time the year prior.
Beck spearheads on of nation’s top QB units
With Beck leading the way, On3Sports’ Jesse Simonton recently named the Georgia quarterback unit as the fourth best in all of college football, ranking behind Texas, Ohio State, and Oregon, in that order.
“Carson Beck might be the No. 1 quarterback in the country in 2024, and while the the Bulldogs don’t have a definitive No. 2 just yet, they have quality options in redshirt sophomore Gunner Stockton (three years in the system) and recent transfer addition Jaden Rashada,” Simonton wrote recently.
“Rashada spent last season starting a handful of games at Arizona State, but the former 4-star quarterback is willingly taking a developmental season before battling with Stockton and freshman Ryan Puglisi for the starting gig next fall.”
