Georgia Football: 3 reasons JT Daniels should start in 2020

JT Daniels was granted immediate eligibility with Georgia football in 2020 so will he win the starting job for the Bulldogs?

You know the saying “the rich get richer”? Well, that’s exactly what has happened to Georgia to kick off the week.

In somewhat of a shocking development on Monday afternoon, the NCAA granted JT Daniels immediate eligibility.

Georgia not only had one transfer quarterback eligible — as a grad transfer — for the 2020 season, but now a second has been granted eligibility and could push for that starting job.

Daniels was a five-star recruit in the 2018 class and started for USC as a true freshman. He passed for over 2,600 yards and 14 touchdowns in that first season and everyone expected big things out of him as a sophomore, but he was injured and ruled out for the year in the season-opener against Fresno State.

Many believed he would come back to USC and battle it out with Kedon Slovis, his replacement, for the starting job, but when spring ball was cancelled, it was basically a given that he had no shot at winning the job.

Joining Wake Forest transfer Jamie Newman in Georgia’s quarterback room, it was almost expected that Daniels would sit for a year behind the elder quarterback and then start in 2021 and beyond. The NCAA decided to grant that eligibility and throw a wrench into Newman’s plans.

Now Kirby Smart has an epic quarterback battle ready to unfold this fall and here’s why the USC transfer should get the nod as QB1.