Kirby Smart is refusing to officially name Gunner Stockton as the Georgia Bulldogs’ starting quarterback for the 2025 season.
“Yeah, so y’all can write about it? No, I don’t,” Smart said when asked by reporters if he was ready to name Stockton the starting quarterback.
While Smart won’t announce the team’s QB1 yet, everyone already knows the answer, and he made that clear when he had Stockton represent the Dawgs at SEC Media Days.
He also hinted at when he revealed what he expects from Stockton this season.
“Good decisions, good decisions. Make good decisions, continue to develop, understanding situational football,” Smart said. “We’ve made football so complicated. Some quarterbacks, I don’t think they know that down-and-distance. I don’t think they actually know, do I have another down after this play, or is this my last chance to get the first down? It’s just little things, being a quarterback, understanding the game, understanding what the defense is doing. He’s grown so much in regards to that.
“ID in protection, the ID in run game. Playing quarterback is, it’s like being a computer. He’s got a million things going on at once. And he’s gotten better and better at handling those things, and that’s what I want to see him do when he gets the opportunity.”
After wrapping up their final fall scrimmage earlier this week, Georgia will kick off their 2025 college football season next Saturday, Aug. 30, against the Marshall Thundering Herd. And that is when fans can expect to hear Stockton’s name announced as the Bulldogs’ starting qu
arterback.