{"id":55758,"date":"2023-12-06T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=55758"},"modified":"2023-12-05T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:33:12","slug":"brock-vandagriff-enters-the-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2023\/12\/06\/brock-vandagriff-enters-the-transfer-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Vandagriff Enters the Transfer Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia quarterback <strong>Brock Vandagriff<\/strong> entered his name in the transfer portal on Monday afternoon. He is projected to go to Kentucky. \u00a0The NCAA transfer portal for the 2024 college football season opened Monday (December 5) and will end on January 2, 2024. Vandagriff was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2023\/08\/29\/three-keys-to-success-for-carson-beck\/\" target=\"_self\">Carson Beck<\/a>\u2019s backup for the 2023 season. He ended the 2023 regular season, completing 12 of 18 passes for 165 yards. Beck can declare for the NFL Draft or return for his senior season. At the time of publishing, Beck has not made an official decision. Here is a quick overview of what awaits Vandagriff in the transfer portal and how his leaving impacts Georgia\u2019s quarterback room.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s0vqqDRk71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/s0vqqDRk71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brock \ud83c\udf0a (@BrockVandagriff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrockVandagriff\/status\/1731745166376247729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Brock Vandagriff Enters the Transfer Portal<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>A Crowded Quarterback Portal<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Vandagriff faces stiff competition in the transfer portal. There are several quarterbacks with multiple years of starting experience ahead of him. Ohio State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kylemccord16\/status\/1731690165616181423?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle McCord<\/a>, Oklahoma\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_dillongabriel_\/status\/1731675665391366509?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dillon Gabriel<\/a>, and Oregon State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DJUiagalelei\/status\/1730301362259554594?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Uiagalelei<\/a> headline the list of quarterbacks already in the transfer portal. Vandagriff <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2023\/04\/07\/georgia-quarterback-competition-insights\/\" target=\"_self\">battled Beck<\/a> in the Spring to be Georgia\u2019s starting quarterback. Despite his lack of in-game experience, Vandagriff has all the tools teams covet in their signal caller.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Vandagriff Scouting Report<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Vandagriff was a five-start prospect coming out of Prince Avenue Christian School. Depending on the publication, he was seen as a top-five dual-threat quarterback. 247Sports scouting report on Vandagriff coming out of high school as a \u201cpass-first quarterback with flashes of athleticism to make plays with his legs, whether buying time or scrambling for yardage.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Georgia\u2019s Quarterback Room<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Even with Vandagriff gone, Georgia\u2019s quarterback room remains deep. Gunnar Stockton is a former five-star inline to take Vandagriff\u2019s role as back if Beck intends to return in 2024. Stockton will be joined by two highly-rated quarterbacks from the Class of 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2023\/05\/15\/dylan-raiola-commits-to-georgia\/\" target=\"_self\">Dylan Raiola<\/a>, arguably the nation\u2019s top quarterback in the class, and <strong>Ryan Puglisi<\/strong> enrolled in January and will join the quarterback competition once Spring ball starts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55781\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55781 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/USATSI_22019234_168400562_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/USATSI_22019234_168400562_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/USATSI_22019234_168400562_lowres-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/USATSI_22019234_168400562_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/USATSI_22019234_168400562_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/USATSI_22019234_168400562_lowres-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/USATSI_22019234_168400562_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/USATSI_22019234_168400562_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia quarterback Brock Vandagriff entered his name in the transfer portal on Monday afternoon. He is projected to go to Kentucky. \u00a0The NCAA transfer portal for the 2024 college football season opened Monday (December 5) and will end on January 2, 2024. Vandagriff was Carson Beck\u2019s backup for the 2023 season. He ended the 2023 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":55781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"304","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[7297,65,20,4516],"class_list":["post-55758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sec","category-featured","tag-brock-vandagriff","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-sec","tag-transfer-portal"],"modified_by":"Kate Pearson Halyburton, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}