It took two attempts at it, but Jared Curtis is a Dawg.
The Nashville Christian (Tenn.) quarterback has been the top quarterback on Georgia’s 2026 recruiting board since the start of his high school career. He’s been the quarterback that Kirby Smart and Mike Bobo have zeroed in on almost exclusively since the start of the 2024 calendar year.
Now, for the second time, Curtis has committed to Georgia, he announced Monday during a ceremony at his school — this time in a head-to-head battle over Dan Lanning-led Oregon.
“Definitely the stability of the coaching staff. Coach Smart, I know he’s not going anywhere. Coach Bobo, he’s locked in there,” Curtis told Dawgs247 previously. “Their development, I think that’ll make me a better person all-around.”
This was Curtis’ second commitment to the Bulldogs.
Curtis was first offered by Georgia in January 2023. His recruitment truly came into focus at the start of 2024. Curtis visited that spring and threw in front of Bobo. That established his position as Georgia’s top quarterback option in the 2026 recruiting class.
In an even more surprising twist, Curtis committed on the spot during that visit.
The 6-foot-4, 220-pound quarterback’s first pledge to the Bulldogs was relatively short-lived. Curtis later decommitted from the Bulldogs in October 2024, citing the need to re-open his recruitment and approach the rest of his visits on equal footing for all programs involved.
By this spring, Curtis had whittled his options down to a final two: Georgia and Oregon.
The Smart vs. Lanning battle pitted against one another two College Football Playoff programs who won their respective big-two conferences last season. Curtis took multi-day visits to both this spring — Oregon from March 8-12 and Georgia from March 13-16.
This was the final time Curtis would step foot on either campus before his Monday announcement.
“Just to build the class around me. I feel like that’s a big thing to do as a quarterback. Get the receivers in, the O-linemen in, the defense around y’all,” Curtis said following his first Georgia commitment. “Just getting into players is a big thing, and starting off the path right.”
Curtis’ commitment gives Georgia its centerpiece of the class, the Bulldogs’ eighth in the 2026 cycle. Curtis joins Lincoln Keyes, Vance Spafford, Brady Marchese, and Graham Houston on the offensive side of the ball. With Curtis’ pledge, Georgia leaps up eight spots to No. 17 in the 247Sports’ recruiting team rankings.
Curtis ranks as the nation’s No. 13 overall prospect in the 2026 class, the No. 4-ranked quarterback and No. 1 prospect in Tennessee.
