Monken has seen Bennett put himself on track to become Georgia’s single-season pass efficiency leader—even with the performance against Alabama. Bennett’s current efficiency rating is 176.85, a smidge better than the school record of 174.82 set by Aaron Murray in 2012. He’s also just ahead of Murray’s career efficiency mark, but Bennett figures to have another season in a Georgia uniform in ’22, so that remains to be seen.
More than anything, what Bennett has worked for at Georgia is the opportunity to step on the field without that stereotype following him. Call him a quarterback, not a former walk-on. Don’t compare his recruiting rankings to Justin Fields or Jake Fromm or Jamie Newman or D’wan Mathis or JT Daniels or any of the more celebrated QBs who have been ahead of him at some point in time—or repeated points in time—on the depth chart.
Bennett says the scout team record for “reloads”—when the coach demands a play be run again, until the starters win the rep—was 12 or 13. The graduate assistant in charge of the scout team put together a video splice of “Kirb Stomps,” with Smart throwing play sheets or storming around the practice field in displeasure. The quarterback assigned jersey No. 22 enjoyed that video.
“I’m not going to sit here and be a frat kid on the football team,” he says. “I’m going to go play football.”Bob Self/Florida Times-Union/USA TODAY NETWORK That didn’t come to pass immediately. Georgia went with Mathis at first. He was ineffective, to say the least, and Smart turned to Bennett while the Bulldogs fan base impatiently waited for Daniels to be cleared and take over.
But Daniels was hurt again in the victory over Vanderbilt, and Bennett has owned the position since then. He was great in a succession of high-profile games against Arkansas, Auburn and Kentucky, then good enough in a blowout of Florida—particularly when he followed an anxiety-inducing interception with a touchdown bomb to Kearis Jackson on his next pass.
ByPatForde Curious to see if he can get past a Michigan defense that is playing as well as they are collectively.
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