📡 While writing about UGA, Jon Solomon discusses success of true frosh QB's starting in the SEC ...

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Over the past 20 years, 15 SEC quarterbacks have started at least half of their team's games as a true freshman. Only five of those quarterbacks saw their teams finish with a winning SEC record: Georgia's Quincy Carter (1998),Tennessee's Casey Clausen (2000), Florida's Chris Leak (2003), Tennessee'sErik Ainge (2004) and Arkansas' Mitch Mustain (2006).

Ainge is the only true freshman quarterback over the past 20 years to win an SEC division title. When Arkansas won the SEC West in 2006, Mustain began the year as the starter and later got benched.

Carter holds the SEC record for passing yards by a true freshman quarterback (2,484). He was 21 years old at the time because he had been playing minor league baseball.



As Georgia ponders starting Jacob Eason, it faces risks of a freshman QB in SEC

 

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Here is another I found while reading on another site.

So you're starting a true freshman quarterback...

 

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Here is another I found while reading on another site.

So you're starting a true freshman quarterback...

Just depends on what you have around him and what you ask him to execute. The Terrelle Pryor situation, he started the last 9 games and lost one of those. They eased Deshaun Watson into the mix at the beginning of the season and by the end of September, he was starting. In his first start against North Carolina, he threw for 434 yards and 6 TDs, completing 75% of his 36 pass attempts. Josh Rosen was striking fear into the Pac 12 defenses from opening day, last season. Who you have around the trigger man and how you manage the individual makes it seem as doable as anything else.