Georgia quarterback Carson Beck entered the 2024 college football season as Pro Football Network’s preliminary QB1 in the 2025 NFL Draft. Where does Beck stand currently with his scouting report, and is he deserving of Round 1 capital?
The following scouting report examines Beck’s merit as the potential front-runner in the upcoming QB class and how he might project at the NFL level.
Note: Carson Beck has decided to enter the transfer portal instead of the 2025 NFL Draft.
Carson Beck’s Draft Profile and Measurements
- Height: 6’4″
- Weight: 220 pounds
- Position: Quarterback
- School: Georgia
- Current Year: Redshirt Senior
Stetson Bennett IV left big shoes to fill at Georgia. He was a two-time national champion and led the Bulldogs to a 15-0 season in 2022. Bennett was a good college QB — but Beck has already made him a distant memory.
Beck had fanfare when he came to Georgia. He was a four-star recruit who’d led the Mandarin High School team to its first-ever Florida state championship. But in 2020, he was behind Bennett and JT Daniels on the depth chart and redshirted his first season. Bennett kept the reins in 2021 and 2022.
Beck flashed promise ahead of 2023 — he completed 26 of 35 passes for 310 yards and four scores in limited action in 2022 — but it took him longer to become the full-time starter than it normally does for highly rated recruits.
Nevertheless, Beck used that time behind the scenes to learn and grow as a player, and he carried that growth through a 2023 campaign that saw him complete 302 of 417 attempts (72.4%) for 3,941 yards, 24 touchdowns, and just six interceptions.
In 2023, Beck helped lead Georgia to an undefeated regular season record, and though they lost the SEC Championship and a College Football Playoff berth at the hands of Alabama, Beck’s inaugural season with Georgia was considered a sweeping success.
Early on in 2024, it’s been more of the same for Beck. Though the Bulldogs haven’t been tested yet as of this update, Beck has been stellar. To this point, he’s completed 56 of 82 attempts (68.3%) for 680 yards, seven touchdowns, and no interceptions.
What did we already know about Beck heading into the 2024 season, and what more have we learned? Beck already looks like a natural QB and a potential franchise talent in a 2025 class that desperately needs one. But how exactly does he profile at the next level?
Beck’s Scouting Report
Strengths
- Sports a tall, prototypical frame with good, lean mass.
- Nimble pocket operator who can use light feet and short-area burst to manage space.
- Has enough mobility and straight-line speed to sneak through gaps for solid gains.
- Uses easy velocity generation to push passes past trailing defenders into tight windows.
- Has the arm elasticity to maintain velocity off-platform on PA rollouts and scrambles.
- Can use his composite arm talent to layer pace and touch on anticipatory darts.
- Has a wide velocity gradient and can throw with touch or laser-like pace at will.
- Possesses an extremely quick, compact, and efficient release on rhythm throws.
- Can diagnose pre-snap, anticipate breaks, and trigger on middle-of-field opportunities.
- Can read high to low and hit checkdowns in a timely manner with his discretion.
- Knows how to manipulate flat and hook zone defenders with his eyes, then capitalize.
- Accurate QB who can use controlled shoulder tilts to throw with situational precision.
- Keeps his base narrow on pocket navigation to allow for easy rotational torque.
- Poised pocket navigator who can stand tall under pressure and slide away from rushers.
- Good ball handler and offensive conductor who can play under center or in shotgun.
Weaknesses
- Tall, slightly high-cut frame yields moderate hip stiffness on direction changes.
- Doesn’t have the agility or flexibility to be a consistent threat as a creator.
- Arm strength, while great, may fall a notch below the quantifiably elite mark.
- Sometimes idles his eyes on boundary verticals, keying in safeties over the top.
- Is occasionally a tick late to trigger on double-moves, throwing WRs into coverage.
- Blitz threats occasionally goad him into drifting too far back and throwing off back foot.
- Interior pressure sometimes causes him to clutch and hesitate when targets are open.
- Can be quicker to sense interior pressure and adjust his positioning to stay in rhythm.
- At times, gets happy feet when in phase, which can impact his ability to channel torque.
- Shoulder misalignment can tug off-platform passes high when rolling to the left.
- Sometimes overestimates placement when anticipating, leading WRs too far ahead.
- Occasionally clutches his release too early on short passes, causing throws to sink.
Current Draft Projection and Summary
Beck grades out as a late-first-round QB prospect in the 2025 NFL Draft. He’s in the same tier as 2024 first-round pick J.J. McCarthy on my grading scale, and he has a chance to be an early first-round pick and the QB1 of the 2025 group with another year.
Beck isn’t the same creative force that other top prospects have been in years past, but he compensates with a near-elite combination of accuracy and processing ability.
That combination is made more potent by a high-level arm, with the arm strength and elasticity to drive pace from different platforms. To that end, Beck can also layer passes and adjust his trajectory at will.
With his anticipation and precision, Beck can capitalize on leverage mismatches over the middle and up the seam. He can also drive throws with impressive velocity and touch. On the other end of the spectrum, he’s a pinpoint-accurate short-game passer with efficient mechanics and a crisp, clean release.
Overall, with his accuracy, pre-snap and post-snap processing, arm talent, competitive toughness, versatility from shotgun and under center, and his ability to conduct the offense and keep plays on schedule, Beck has the potential to be a quality starting QB for an NFL offense.
Without elite athleticism and creation capacity, Beck might not completely scheme diverse or an elevating force, but he can be the level of QB who flourishes and produces at a high clip in the right system.