What you need to know about Georgia’s newest QB commit Jared Curtis
The best player in the 2026 class plans to be a Georgia Bulldogs.
Over the weekend, the nation’s No. 1-ranked prospect Jared Curtis announced his commitment to be the quarterback in Georgia’s class. He’s been trending toward the Bulldogs for close to a year now, and he made his decision while on a practice visit to Athens last weekend. Curtis becomes the first commitment in that recruiting cycle for the Bulldogs, so Kirby Smart will build the rest of his class around Curtis.
In this article, Dawgs247 connected with Curtis’ mother Barbara, his quarterback trainer Thomas Morris, and leaned on a previous conversation with Curtis to get more insights into Georgia’s newest add.
“He’s an incredible kid. He comes from a great family. He’s a worker. I’ve trained him since sixth grade, so I’ve been with him for a while and gotten to know him real well,” Morris told Dawgs247. “He’s a kid with a great personality. He has a natural gravity to him where, obviously, when you’re a top player in the country people look up to you, but people really flock to him. He has a great personality where he can relate with anyone. No one’s too big for him and no one’s too small for him either.
So he’s a great leader, but he’s really just a worker. He wants to be great, and that’s one of the reasons I think he chose Georgia is he wants to be the best. He wants to be surrounded by the best. He wants to be challenged by the best. He wants to be coached by the best. So he really has this thing in him that he ticks a little different. He’s a different caliber guy, but his mindset is equal to his skill set.
We take a look at everything Georgia fans need to know about the Bulldogs’ newest addition to the 2026 class.Curtis hasn’t spoken much since going public with his decision to Georgia.
But Dawgs247 has spoken to Curtis a few times over the last several months to get insights into why the Bulldogs were trending. His relationship with Georgia started in eighth grade when then-OC Todd Monken followed him on social media and then went to Curtis’ school after the season to extend an offer. Within a week of Monken taking the Ravens job, Kirby Smart and Mike Bobo got Curtis on a visit to reassure his offer.
Curtis returned for the Georgia spring game and the South Carolina game during the season.
By the time he left Athens on that trip, the Bulldogs were in control of the recruitment.
“It’s just crazy. Every play, every single defensive play for Georgia, it felt in the stadium like they’d just won the national championship. It was that loud in there. It gets crazier and crazier throughout the game. It was wild. I really liked that. Just that and the relationship with Coach Bobo and Coach Gummy, it was good to get back with them,” Curtis said.
The push by Georgia for Curtis was emotional news for the family.
In fact, Dawgs247 was told Curtis’ mother Barbara was especially emphatic when the Bulldogs first offered him. So much so she was brought to tears at the opportunity for her son. That family feeling about Georgia certainly played a key role in Curtis choosing the Bulldogs before the start of his junior season.
“I’ve loved Georgia from Day 1,” Barbara Curtis said. “It felt like a home away from home. We are all so happy with Jared’s decision. What a blessing. Go Dawgs.”
It’s not every day the No. 1 player in the country commits to your program. As Curtis’ quarterback coach Thomas Morris can attest, it’s not every cycle you’re getting to coach one of the best talents in the nation.
Morris and Curtis have worked together since Curtis was in sixth grade. By Curtis’ freshman year, it was obvious he’s wasn’t like everyone else.
“I saw him in January and then saw him again in March, and he was a different dude. He became a man within a month or two. He was a 6-1, 180, and I saw him a few months later and he was 6-3, 215,” Morris told Dawgs247. “I was just like, ‘Holy cow.’ He was always really talented, always had a big arm, always really a tough kid, played like a linebacker. But really whenever he hit that stride, there was something that was just different about him. I don’t know if it was more confidence, or he just grew up, but his arm talent from that time forward was unbelievable.”
Arm talent is the phrase immediately tossed out whenever someone is watching Curtis. Curtis is a shade under 6-foot-4 and approaching 220 pounds. At last check, he rocks a size 15 shoe, and he has the mitts NFL scouts will drool over on Combine day.
The combination of physical tools make Curtis a clear frontrunner as No. 1 prospect in the 2026 class.
“His build, he’s different. I think that attributes to how powerful he is. He’s probably the strongest quarterback I’ve ever trained in high school. He can really put it wherever he wants to,” Morris said. “He’s just one of those guys that’s built different, built like a linebacker. He can really move well. He has that toughness about him where he’ll probably have to learn to slide, let’s put it that way.
He likes to run people over and juke people out. He has that little toughness about him. Physically, it makes sense why he’s the No. 1 player in his class and No. 1 quarterback in the country. He just wows you. Yeah, he’s a true dual-threat, in my opinion. He’s probably a 4.6-4.7 type of guy. But he’s got some twitch to him, as well. Georgia’s really getting an unbelievable talent.”
