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Georgia QB Stetson Bennett reaches 3,000-yard milestone at Kentucky

On3 imageby:Jake Rowe•11/19/22•

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Stetson Bennett entered Georgia’s clash with Kentucky with a chance to accomplish something that no Bulldog quarterback has done since 2013. He reached the 3,000-yard mark on the season in the 3rd quarter on a 35-yard pass to Dominick Blaylock.

Aaron Murray was the last Bulldog to accomplish the feat. Coming into the day, Stetson Bennett need 105 yards to get to that 3,000-yard mark.

Through the first 10 games of the 2022 season, the sixth-year senior quarterback had completed just under 68 percent of his passes for 2,895 yards, 14 touchdowns and five interceptions. He has four more rushing yards on the year.

Stetson Bennett has been the driving force behind what has been a pass-first offense Georgia in 2022. Without his No. 1 receiver since the first play of Week 2, Stetson Bennett has attempted over 32 passes per game. Georgia is averaging over 36 pass attempts per game, the most for Georgia since 1994 when Eric Zeier and company threw it 42 times per game.

Georgia is among the nation’s best offenses in average yards per game and per play. It is also near the top in scoring offense.

It almost happened a year ago when Stetson Bennett helped Georgia to a National Championship. The Bulldogs called on Stetson Bennett to start 12 games where he threw for 2,862 yards 29 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Two of those touchdowns were in the fourth quarter of the Bulldogs’ 33-15 National Championship win over Alabama.

In his career at Georgia, Bennett had started 27 games and completed 64 percent of his passes for 7,196 yards 51 touchdowns and 19 interceptions coming into today. He had also run for 11 touchdowns.

The Stetson Bennett Story

The Stetson Bennett story is well-known at this point. He enrolled at Georgia in 2017 as a preferred walk-on and served as the scout-team quarterback. His role was brought into the spotlight when players raved about his work while mimicking Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield for the Rose Bowl and College Football Playoff matchup that season.

Stetson Bennett left Georgia prior to the following season, deciding to go the junior college route after going through spring drills with the Bulldogs. He went to Jones County Community College for a year and Georgia brought him back on scholarship during the 2019 Early Signing Period.

After serving as Georgia’s backup for a season, Stetson Bennett came on in relief of D’Wan Mathis in the 2020 season opener at Arkansas. He helped the Bulldog offense get started and it cruised to a 37-10 win.

Georgia started Bennett for the next five games, going 3-2 in that stretch. Stetson Bennett suffered a separated shoulder in UGA’s loss to Florida, opening the door for JT Daniels to grab the job. He started the last four games, all Georgia wins, and had the job going into the next season.

When Daniels battled a couple of core injuries early in that season, Stetson Bennett grabbed the starting job and hasn’t let go since.

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