Vanderbilt to flip 5-star QB Jared Curtis from Georgia

by: Steve Wiltfong 9 hours ago swiltfong_

Rivals has learned that Nashville (Tenn.) Christian five-star quarterback Jared Curtis has informed Georgia that he will play his college football at Vanderbilt. Rivals tabs Curtis as the No. 1 passer in the country and No. 2 prospect overall.

The 6-foot-3 1/2, 225-pound Curtis had been a verbal to Georgia since May, but now becomes commit No. 21 for head coach Clark Lea and his staff.

Curtis becomes biggest pledge in program history and the most talented signal-caller to give a verbal to the program out of high school since Jay Cutler.

Lea is winning big on the field and landing Curtis could keep the Commodores in College Football Playoff contention for years to come. He’ll have a chance to compete for the starting quarterback job next fall as Heisman candidate Diego Pavia exhausts his college eligibility. Playing in year one was ultimately the most important factor in Curtis’s decision.

Beyond competing for snaps as a true freshman, program trajectory and the opportunity to play for Lea along with a competitive NIL offer allowed Vandy to pull this off.

“There is a lot of great hype right now with Vanderbilt,” Curtis’s agent Peter Webb of QB Reps said earlier this fall. “The city is hot right now. They beat LSU. They beat Bama last year. I think they’ve done a great job to pique his interest and get him to be curious about the program. There is a lot of good things happening with Vanderbilt.”

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