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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