The Hurricanes have their quarterback: Former Georgia standout Carson Beck commits to Miami

The Miami Hurricanes have their quarterback for the 2025 season.

Carson Beck, who started the past two seasons for the Georgia Bulldogs, announced Friday on his personal X (formerly Twitter) account that he is transferring to Miami.

“Go Canes,” Beck wrote in the post that included a graphic of him wearing a Hurricanes uniform.

Beck, who entered the transfer portal on Thursday after initially declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft, has one season of eligibility remaining and will reportedly receive a multimillion dollar name, image and likeness deal.

Beck completed 68 percent of his career passes at Georgia for 7,912 yards and 58 touchdowns against 20 interceptions. He was the Bulldogs’ starter for the past two seasons.

Beck, who is also dating Hurricanes women’s basketball player Hanna Cavinder, underwent surgery in late December to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow after sustaining an injury in the first half of the SEC Championship Game against Texas. He did not play for the Bulldogs in their College Football Playoff quarterfinal game against Notre Dame, a 23-10 loss in the Sugar Bowl.

According to ESPN, Beck is expected to miss spring practice while recovering from the surgery and won’t be able to throw until March but should be cleared for summer workouts leading up to the start of the season.

The news is a boon for the Hurricanes, who are coming off their first 10-win season since 2017 but needed to figure out their quarterback position following the departure of Cam Ward, who was a Heisman Trophy finalist re-wrote the Hurricanes’ record book and very likely could be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft.

Ward last season set the Hurricanes’ single-season school records for completions (305), passing yards (4,313), passing touchdowns (39) and completion percentage (67.2 percent).

Now, Beck is the heir apparent to Miami’s starting quarterback job and has the chance to do the same for his draft stock. After being viewed as a top pick entering the season, Beck in 2024 completed 65 percent of his passes for 3,485 yards and 28 touchdowns but also threw 12 interceptions — tied for the most among quarterbacks at Power 4 schools this season — and then also sustained the elbow injury.

Beyond Beck, Miami has three other scholarship quarterbacks on the roster: Emory Williams, Judd Anderson and incoming freshman Luke Nickel.

Beck overall is the 11th player to commit to Miami this transfer portal cycle but just the fourth on offense along with wide receiver CJ Daniels, tight end Alex Bauman and center James Brockermeyer.

While Beck provides stability at quarterback, the Hurricanes still have to replace a lot of talent from its offense that led the country in scoring (43.9 points per game), yards per game (537.2), yards per play (7.57) and third-down success rate (56.25 percent).

Gone are their top five pass-catchers from last season in wide receivers Xavier Restrepo (out of eligibility), Jacolby George (out of eligibility), Isaiah Horton (transfer portal) and Sam Brown (declared for NFL draft) along with tight end Elijah Arroyo (declared for NFL draft). Those five accounted for 3,594 of Miami’s 4,527 receiving yards last season — 79.4 percent — and 33 of 41 touchdown catches.

Daniels along with rising sophomores Joshisa Trader and Ny Carr lead the Hurricanes’ current crop of receivers along with a group of incoming freshman that includes a pair of local four-star prospects in former West Broward standout Joshua Moore and Plantation American Heritage star Malachi Toney. Bauman and rising sophomore Elija Lofton lead the tight ends, with incoming freshmen Luka Gilbert and Brock Schott.

Rising junior Mark Fletcher and rising sophomore Jordan Lyle should lead the run game.