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Jared Curtis gave Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs a scare ahead of his commitment.
"I actually called coach Smart, messed with him a little bit like, 'Hey coach, I appreciate it, but ...'
"And then I couldn't go any further," Curtis said. "So I let him know and he was pretty happy."
Curtis locked in his commitment to the Bulldogs on May 5 in a ceremony at Nashville Christian. It was the second time he chose Georgia after reopening his recruitment last October. Curtis trimmed his list to two schools, Georgia and Dan Lanning's Oregon Ducks.
Curtis is the No. 1 ranked quarterback in the 247Sports Composite ranking and the No. 2 player overall for the class of 2026. He took home the Gatorade Tennessee football player of the year and Tennessee Titans Mr. Football in Division II-A this past season after leading Nashville Christian to a TSSAA state football championship, its first since 2015.
The 6-foot-4, 225-pound star displayed an impressive dual-threat talent, completing 179-of-255 passes for 2,830 yards with 40 touchdowns and three interceptions while rushing 88 times for 637 yards and another 18 TDs.
Curtis is Georgia's only quarterback commitment in the Class of 2026 and is the top ranked recruit among the Bulldogs' current 2026 commits. His' physical attributes have long drawn praise but it's his growth off the field that Nashville Christian coach Jeff Brothers believes stood out to Bulldogs coaches over time.
"The size was there, the arm talent, the ability to throw a football is obvious, but then being able to explain (to Georgia) all the hard work he puts in, all the offseason things that he instigates ... the Georgia guys, I think, watched Jared grow the same way we've watched him grow and they've been a part of that process from the beginning," Brothers said. "And I think that just solidified with them, he's the guy we want to lead our program."
Curtis will join a quarterback room that consists of five other athletes ahead of the 2025 season. The Bulldogs recruited two quarterbacks in the 2025 class including, three-star Hezekiah Millender out of Athens, Georgia, and four-star Ryan Montgomery from Findlay, Ohio.
Rounding out the quarterback room is red-shirt freshman Ryan Puglisi, red-shirt junior Gunner Stockton and red-shirt freshman Colter Ginn, some of whom Curtis has had the chance to meet on visits to Athens.
"They're great players and great people. I know most of them and I talk to them a lot when I'm up there," Curtis said. "So they're great and I just have to go in there and be grateful and just try to get the job done."
Curtis has been rehabbing a back injury but was cleared to throw "a couple weeks ago," he said, and expects to be fully cleared over the summer ahead of his senior season with the Eagles.
Georgia coaches broke down the area's Curtis needs to sharpen ahead of his early enrollment with the Bulldogs, and none were more important than his familiarity with the playbook.
"I have a lot of work to do for sure and I'll never forget that ... just learning the playbook, college playbook, it's a lot," Curtis said.
The playbook Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo uses shares similarities to the one Curtis has mastered at Nashville Christian, each running pro-style offenses that should ease Curtis' transition to college.
"Coach Bobo (runs) very much a pro-style offense," Brothers said. "We're a pro-style offense, a lot of the same concept driven things. When I've been able to get on the board with Coach Bobo and shown him some of the things we do, and he shows me some of the things they do, we literally have just a little mini clinic."
Brothers said he's been able to adjust Nashville Christian's playbook to incorporate things he's seen in talks with Bobo, while Bobo even picked up a few tidbits looking at the Eagles' redzone sets.
"Just the fact that we can communicate on that level is comforting to know," Brothers said. "That's how Jared communicates with us and if that's the way they communicate, then he's going to fit in with them as well."
Harrison Campbell covers sports for The Daily Herald and The Tennessean. Email him at [email protected] and follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @hccamp.
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"I actually called coach Smart, messed with him a little bit like, 'Hey coach, I appreciate it, but ...'
"And then I couldn't go any further," Curtis said. "So I let him know and he was pretty happy."
Curtis locked in his commitment to the Bulldogs on May 5 in a ceremony at Nashville Christian. It was the second time he chose Georgia after reopening his recruitment last October. Curtis trimmed his list to two schools, Georgia and Dan Lanning's Oregon Ducks.
Curtis is the No. 1 ranked quarterback in the 247Sports Composite ranking and the No. 2 player overall for the class of 2026. He took home the Gatorade Tennessee football player of the year and Tennessee Titans Mr. Football in Division II-A this past season after leading Nashville Christian to a TSSAA state football championship, its first since 2015.
The 6-foot-4, 225-pound star displayed an impressive dual-threat talent, completing 179-of-255 passes for 2,830 yards with 40 touchdowns and three interceptions while rushing 88 times for 637 yards and another 18 TDs.
How does Jared Curtis fit in with Georgia football?
Curtis is Georgia's only quarterback commitment in the Class of 2026 and is the top ranked recruit among the Bulldogs' current 2026 commits. His' physical attributes have long drawn praise but it's his growth off the field that Nashville Christian coach Jeff Brothers believes stood out to Bulldogs coaches over time.
"The size was there, the arm talent, the ability to throw a football is obvious, but then being able to explain (to Georgia) all the hard work he puts in, all the offseason things that he instigates ... the Georgia guys, I think, watched Jared grow the same way we've watched him grow and they've been a part of that process from the beginning," Brothers said. "And I think that just solidified with them, he's the guy we want to lead our program."
Curtis will join a quarterback room that consists of five other athletes ahead of the 2025 season. The Bulldogs recruited two quarterbacks in the 2025 class including, three-star Hezekiah Millender out of Athens, Georgia, and four-star Ryan Montgomery from Findlay, Ohio.
Rounding out the quarterback room is red-shirt freshman Ryan Puglisi, red-shirt junior Gunner Stockton and red-shirt freshman Colter Ginn, some of whom Curtis has had the chance to meet on visits to Athens.
"They're great players and great people. I know most of them and I talk to them a lot when I'm up there," Curtis said. "So they're great and I just have to go in there and be grateful and just try to get the job done."
Curtis has been rehabbing a back injury but was cleared to throw "a couple weeks ago," he said, and expects to be fully cleared over the summer ahead of his senior season with the Eagles.
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Georgia football's offensive scheme familiar to Jared Curtis
Georgia coaches broke down the area's Curtis needs to sharpen ahead of his early enrollment with the Bulldogs, and none were more important than his familiarity with the playbook.
"I have a lot of work to do for sure and I'll never forget that ... just learning the playbook, college playbook, it's a lot," Curtis said.
The playbook Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo uses shares similarities to the one Curtis has mastered at Nashville Christian, each running pro-style offenses that should ease Curtis' transition to college.
"Coach Bobo (runs) very much a pro-style offense," Brothers said. "We're a pro-style offense, a lot of the same concept driven things. When I've been able to get on the board with Coach Bobo and shown him some of the things we do, and he shows me some of the things they do, we literally have just a little mini clinic."
Brothers said he's been able to adjust Nashville Christian's playbook to incorporate things he's seen in talks with Bobo, while Bobo even picked up a few tidbits looking at the Eagles' redzone sets.
"Just the fact that we can communicate on that level is comforting to know," Brothers said. "That's how Jared communicates with us and if that's the way they communicate, then he's going to fit in with them as well."
Harrison Campbell covers sports for The Daily Herald and The Tennessean. Email him at [email protected] and follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @hccamp.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Georgia football commitment Jared Curtis talks fit with Georgia football
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