Now throwing again, Carson Beck has a three-point plan to get ready for UM’s season
Carson Beck walked off the practice field Thursday with a smile on his face.
He has been waiting for this moment.
“It’s the first time I played live football in helmets in eight months,” Beck, the Miami Hurricanes’ new starting quarterback, said. “it was really exciting to get back out on the field. My arm felt absolutely juiced. Probably the first 20 throws, that thing was coming out. And then halfway through practice, I think I finally settled in, and I thought the ending of the practice for the offense was really, really good once we started to get to the team periods.”
It’s what the Hurricanes wanted to see. They know Beck’s talent level. He’s one of the top quarterbacks in college football this season after starting the past two seasons for a perennial national championship contender in the Georgia Bulldogs.
But there’s always some uncertainty coming off of major surgery like Beck is, having undergone an operation to repair the UCL in his right elbow after sustaining the injury in the SEC Championship Game in December while playing for Georgia. He wasn’t able to throw during spring practices while he rehabbed but did all the work required behind the scenes to make sure Thursday could be as much of a success as possible.
It’s one practice, one day in a month-long process leading up to the Hurricanes’ marquee season opener on Aug. 31 against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, but it was a needed step for both Beck and the Hurricanes.
“Really productive first day,” Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal said. “He himself will tell you maybe his first rep or two might have been off by a little bit, and then by the middle of practice, really, really impressive, and probably even more more impressive than that is his desire to get upstairs after a shower and get cleaned up, of course, and getting on that film and getting those corrections on to advance quicker and quicker. He’s played so much football, he’s seen so much and he really understands our concepts well, but he had a very productive first day.”
Now, Beck can focus on the rest of the tasks at hand.
Fall camp can be long, but he knows that month flies by and the season will start before he knows it.
So heading into Thursday’s first practice, he wrote down three goals he wants to accomplish before camp finishes.
No. 1: Be consistent.
“Show up every single day and be the same person,” Beck said. “I mean, fall camp’s long, right? You get tired. It’s hard days, right? There’s a lot of meetings, there’s a lot of practice. For me, I have to show up and be the same exact person every single day regardless of how I feel because my energy is contagious. If I come in with my head down, shoulders slumped, and everybody sees that, it’s going to wear off on the rest of the team. So just coming in and having good energy every day, being the same person, being consistent.”
No. 2: Be more vocal.
“Just putting an emphasis on that and just talking whenever I can,” Beck said. “Whenever there’s a moment to teach, coach or help another player, that’s what I’m going to do. It’s an emphasis of mine throughout the camp and then throughout the rest of the season.”
No. 3: Execute.
“Just perform and have fun — enjoy football,” Beck said. “Don’t be so uptight and stressed and worried and all these different things and emotions that could come with competition and playing the game. Just be loose, have fun and enjoy playing with these guys. This is my last fall camp that I’m ever going to have in college. It’s a crazy realization, my sixth one and it’s gonna be my last one. It’s exciting to think about, but it’s also a nostalgic feeling. So I’m just trying to enjoy it and have fun and just go out there and make this a good one.”
Beck’s leadership has been on full display since he stepped foot on campus this spring. He had the playbook memorized within his first week or so in Coral Gables while working with offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson and doing walkthroughs with offensive analyst Max Drisko. He wasn’t able to throw at that time, but he was able to grasp everything needed so that he could be fully prepared when the time eventually came.
He was cleared to throw shortly after spring ball concluded and went through his share of player-led workouts over the summer.
But Thursday marked that critical first formal step — and his teammates came away impressed.
“It was a glimpse of something,” star right tackle Francis Mauigoa said. “The first practice was really great. He went, he came out there, did his thing, as we expected. Shoot, he’s Carson Beck.”
And that’s all the Hurricanes want from Beck.
“I’m super excited to continue to keep working,” Beck said. “And honestly, it’s all gone by so fast. I can’t even believe that I’ve already been here for seven months. So honestly, just try to enjoy every day. Take it day by day and be the best leader I can be.”
This story was originally published July 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM.
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