Carson Beck, Miami Athletics
INDIANAPOLIS — The Pittsburgh Steelers are doing their homework on this year’s quarterback class ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft. Mike McCarthy and the team’s decision-makers got to know Miami signal-caller Carson Beck a little better during a formal meeting this week at the NFL Scouting Combine.
“(McCarthy) is super, super smart,” Beck said Friday. “Really, really smart coach. That meeting, it was a lot of ball talk, for the most part. There was a couple questions about obviously just figuring out who I am and wanting to know who I am, but it was a lot of ball talk. I really enjoyed that meeting. It was really just me and him going back and forth the whole time, just talking football, which is what I love to do.”
Beck, who’d joined the Hurricanes as a transfer last year after five seasons at Georgia, passed for 3,813 yards and a career-high 30 touchdowns this past season. He also threw 12 interceptions.
Beck added that there are misconceptions about his Georgia exit.
“I feel like people take that a little bit the wrong way,” Beck said. “You look at the beginning of the 2024 season, going into it, nobody envisioned that season to go that way, starting with myself. I didn’t know I was gonna get injured at the end of the season. I didn’t know that I was gonna end up coming back to college for another year. That was never the plan originally.
“When the injury happened, I was still gonna go to the NFL. I had declared for the draft, I was gonna go through the process, and from that point on, I’m gone. So it’s like, ‘OK, Gunner’s next up.’ … So when I had decided to not go to the NFL and come back, it was, ‘I’m gonna go somewhere else.’”
The Steelers are likely to add at least one signal-caller to the fold this offseason. They’re still waiting on Aaron Rodgers’ decision as to whether he wants to play a second season in black and gold, too.
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