The Ballad of Stetson Bennett: From Walk-on to the Brink of CFB Immortality

It’s hard to find a more unlikely college football journey than that of Georgia QB Stetson Bennett. He first arrived in Athens as a walk-on in 2017 and a year later, when five-star recruit Justin Fields committed to the Bulldogs, Bennett transferred to Jones County Junior College. He returned to Georgia in 2019, and didn’t get his shot as the starter for two more years after that. But now, Bennett has been a Heisman finalist, and a national championship-winning quarterback…who is about to play for his second. So we called our friend Ryan McGee to put into context how unusual Bennett’s story is…and how a former walk-on is now on the brink of college football immortality.

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