![]() In the preseason, they were using you in the option and people didn’t know what to make of it. I’m forever grateful for it.įifty-third overall in the 2001 draft. I was blessed enough to put a star on my helmet. It didn’t matter, honestly, who I got drafted by. You try to block it out as much as you can. But I wanted to prove I could play in the NFL because you hear some of the naysayers out there. I say all that to say this: I didn’t care who drafted me. The Cowboys were going to jump up, no matter what, if somebody got wind of picking you.” My agent told me, “If certain teams skip over, that’s who’s going to come and get you. So I knew firsthand who was going to be drafting me anyways. So honestly, it was spoiled a little bit because I found out before the draft - a couple days before the draft - that the Cowboys were going to be drafting me. Things like that I was fighting throughout the draft process, I had to really come in and prove myself. Some marijuana rumors out there, about me being a leader. So I had to fight my butt off after breaking my hand. And this is right before I broke my hand in my junior year. The likes of Drew Brees and Michael Vick. What’s going through your mind when the Dallas Cowboys draft you to be a heir apparent to a Hall of Famer?Ĭarter: You know something? Before I broke my hand in college, honestly, there were a couple names being mentioned and I was one of them. But then being able to take my talents to the NFL was such a blessing. Going to the University of Georgia was a blessing in itself with all that rich tradition. And I’m skipping over baseball because I got drafted in baseball.Ĭollege was great. 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. Too often, names completely fall out of our memories.
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