Quay Walker reveals quarterback Stetson Bennett uses flip phone

If you’re a Georgia fan worried about outside noise distracting Bulldogs quarterback Stetson Bennett ahead of Monday night’s national championship game against Alabama, don’t be.

According to Bennett’s teammate and linebacker Quay Walker, he doesn’t have a smart phone. Or at least he didn’t prior to the start of the 2021 season.

“Stetson had a flip phone before that, before we started the season, I want to say,” Walker said earlier this week. “But Stetson don’t really pay too much attention to what’s being said of him. We don’t either.”

So it sounds like he’s pretty locked in. But it’s not just Bennett that is focusing all of his attention on Monday night in Indianapolis.

“So like I said earlier, I think for the question, the main thing is for us to worry about all the guys that’s there because nobody else matter and their opinion,” Walker added concerning staying on-task. “At the end of the day whether you’re doing good or bad somebody is going to have something bad to say about you anyway regardless. I think it’s the main focus, the way he approach that just cancel out the outside noise, major props to him for that.”

Walker ultimately doubled down on the hilarious flip phone comment.

“But yes, having a flip phone – I don’t think you really care too much about the outside noise and social media.”

Walker and Bennett: two paths, one shared goal for 2021

Bennett has been a part of a team that played in the national championship before, as he was a freshman walk-on when Georgia played Alabama for the title during the 2017 season. Of course, the game went in the Tide’s favor as they overcame a 13-0 halftime deficit and emerged with a 26-23 overtime victory. Georgia’s national title drought continued, and Bennett transferred to JUCO Jones College in Mississippi before returning to Georgia, this time on scholarship. Now he is in a position to snap the drought, one which has been going since 1980.

Walker, however, had a much different path to Indianapolis than his quarterback. He arrived in Athens in the season following the last national championship berth. Also a Georgia native, he was a five-star recruiting according to On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. 

The two players have the same Achilles’ heel in front of them; Georgia is 0-4 against Alabama under head coach Kirby Smart. Can they break the curse? Monday night will be telling.