![]() College, going to the University of Georgia. And then also winning a state championship in 1995, my senior year in high school. Atlanta was starting to really cultivate into being one of the major cities in the country. With all the athletes I was growing up around. I had a great time as a kid growing up in Decatur, Ga. From college to the pros.Ĭarter: Heck, I’m going to back you up a little bit - into high school. Football-wise, people didn’t hear from you. Jerry Jones wants you - you’re going to replace Troy Aikman. Where does it start? A lot of people out there probably remember you as the star at Georgia. His 20s and 30s were rough - but Quincy Carter is convinced he finally addressed the man in the mirror. Our full conversation is below with a video replay as well. The Shreveport Battle Wings? The Abilene Ruff Riders? The Corpus Christi Fury ? Carter couldn’t get out of his own way. From there, he bounced around on obscure teams nobody has ever heard of. Yet, as he explains, Carter got hooked on pot at a young age and it became a gateway drug to much worse.Īfter the Montreal Alouettes released him in 2006, one CFL club told the Montreal Gazette they avoided signing Carter due to a “serious marijuana problem.” They weren’t lying. His sophomore year at Georgia, Carter rallied the Bulldogs from a 25-10 deficit in the Outback Bowl to beat the Drew Brees-led Purdue Boilermakers. The Chicago Cubs even selected him in the second round of the 1996 MLB draft. Carter had it all out of high school in Decatur, Ga. This month, it was announced that Carter would lead the BRC Recovery Center’s Athlete and Entertainers program in Manor, Texas.įounded in 2006, BRC Recovery serves as a chronic relapse addiction treatment center.Ĭarter is also coaching young quarterbacks. He’s in his mid-40s now and works as a sponsor himself after getting so much help from his own over the years, former Cowboys great Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson. Just recently, 2019 on, he has found a way to get his life back. That is, until stories started popping up about his problems with addiction. Personally, I hadn’t thought much about Carter these last 15 to 20 years. A failed drug test ended Carter’s Cowboys career, he played for the New York Jets one season and… that was it. The quarterback out of Georgia was handpicked by Jerry Jones as the face of the franchise to replace Troy Aikman at the turn of the century. There’s a good chance Quincy Carter is one such name for you. Never to be heard from or thought of again. He finished the season with some of the best statistics of his career: 35 completions in 58 passes for 498 yards, 3 touchdowns, one interception and a 98.2 passer rating.Too often, names completely fall out of our memories. He ended up starting three games (winning two) after Pennington injured his rotator cuff, and if not for his performance, the team would not have made the playoffs. On August 24, 2004, Carter was signed to a one-year contract by the New York Jets to serve as a veteran backup to Chad Pennington. ![]() He'd already flunked two previous tests and would have to be suspended for the first four games of the season. League sources eventually revealed that Carter had been released after failing a drug test. ![]() Before Carter's release, it had been projected that he had an edge over Testaverde for the starting role and that third-string quarterback Tony Romo would be waived. The group of quarterbacks for the Cowboys that offseason had expanded with the trade for yet another former baseball player, Drew Henson, and the acquisition of Vinny Testaverde off waivers. In the 1998 Peach Bowl against the University of Virginia, he passed for 222 yards, 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions to lead Georgia from a 21-0 deficit to a 35-33 victory.ĭuring the offseason, coming off a successful year, Carter was abruptly cut on Augunder unclear circumstances. Against Auburn University, he threw for 351 yards 2 touchowns and 3 interceptions. In the 7-38 loss against the University of Florida, he completed a career-high 33-of-49 passes (67.3%) for a career-high tying 368 yards and 2 interceptions. ![]() He showed he was a dual-threat quarterback, as he demonstrated in Georgia's 28-26 win over the University of Kentucky, running 14 times for 114 yards (including a 49-yard touchdown run) and completing 10-of-14 passes for 147 yards and 2 passing touchdowns. Struggling with his baseball career, Carter opted to return to play college football in 1998, but made the highly publicized decision to sign with the University of Georgia instead of Georgia Tech, who officially contested the move but was still overruled by the NCAA.Īgainst Louisiana State University, he was named SEC Offensive Player of the Week after completing 27-of-34 passes (79.4% - career high) for 318 yards and 2 touchdowns. ![]()
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