Greyson Lambert: His Starting QB Job To Win Now?

Greyson Lambert’s transfer was a mutually beneficial decision made by the Georgia Bulldogs coaching staff and the recent graduate of the University of Virginia.

Lambert wanted to use his last two seasons of eligibility to play closer to home (Jesup, GA) and UGA needed some depth at the quarterback position with only two scholarship QBs after Jacob Park’s transfer from the program this spring.

Many thought Greyson Lambert would come to Georgia as more of a backup to Brice Ramsey this fall, but with no starting quarterback named a week before the season starts, is Lambert somehow in the driver’s seat of this highly publicized QB race?

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It seems that Greyson Lambert has already indoctrinated himself with new OC Brian Schottenheimer’s playbook in under one month of time since being enrolled as a grad student at the University of Georgia. Lambert is in the midst of a heavy three-way battle for the starting quarterback job vacated by Hutson Mason’s graduation, with RS Sophomore Brice Ramsey and fellow grad student Faton Bauta who has two years of eligibility left.

In the final intra-squad scrimmage, both Ramsey and Lambert played with the number one offense, splitting reps, while Bauta led the second team offense. HC Mark Richt has mentioned what he likes about all three passers: Ramsey’s arm talent, Bauta’s preparation, and Lambert’s ability to learn things quickly.

To me, the longer this goes on, the more likely is that Brice Ramsey won’t win the starting job. For a guy as raw as Ramsey, you would think that the coaching staff would want to give Brice as many reps with the first team before his first career start instead of divvying up snaps with two likely backups.

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That would mean to me that Brice has not commanded the offense yet like he should have in the spring, leaving the door wide open for both Faton Bauta and now Greyson Lambert to challenge him for the starting gig.

Lambert has more in-game experience than both Bauta and Ramsey combined, albeit it was playing for a mediocre Virginia Cavaliers team in the ACC Coastal. Suiting up for the Red and Black is a completely different animal than what Greyson Lambert played at in Charlottesville.

Though Richt won’t publicly narrow it down to two in this race, you have to believe that with Lambert and Ramsey splitting reps with the ones means that Bauta has fallen behind in the race. Or conversely, maybe Richt is playing a fast one on all of us and has his eyes on Faton Bauta being the starter? Maybe Bauta doesn’t need the first team reps as badly as both Ramsey and Lambert do.

Richt has said that Faton Bauta is the hardest worker in the entire program and that he has played the most mistake free football of anybody in the QB race. Perhaps playing with the 2nd team is a test in its own right to see if Bauta can still complete a high percentage of his passes with developing receivers against the best defense the University of Georgia has to offer.

To me, it seems like Richt and Schottenheimer have praised both Bauta and Lambert more often this fall camp than they have with Ramsey. I’d rather have a guy under center that doesn’t turn the ball over (Bauta) or a fast learner (Lambert), than a guy who has a strong arm but should have already locked up the spot back in April but still has not (Ramsey).

Something’s incredible fishy with this quarterback race and it’s not going to turn out how we envisioned. I have a strong suspicion that this will carry into the first quarter of the season with two or all three passers getting work in meaningful games. Like the quarterback race Alabama had last year between Jacob Coker and Blake Sims, everybody knew that Coker was going to run away with the job until he didn’t. Sims played a strong last year with the Tide and helped get Bama into the inaugural College Football Playoff.

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