Ex-Washington QB KJ Carta-Samuels transferring to UCLA
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The UCLA Bruins will have another quarterback in the mix next season.K.J. Carta-Samuels announced on Monday that he will join the Bruins’ football program in the spring as a graduate transfer. Carta-Samuels joined Washington in 2014 and spent the past threEx-Washington QB KJ Carta-Samuels transferring to UCLA
The UCLA Bruins will have another quarterback in the mix next season.K.J. Carta-Samuels announced on Monday that he will join the Bruins’ football program in the spring as a graduate transfer. Carta-Samuels joined Washington in 2014 and spent the past three seasons as Jake Browning’s backup on the Huskies.Carta-Samuels told CBS Sports that new UCLA coach Chip Kelly told him there would be an open competition for the starting job, which helped convince KJ to transfer there.“It’s going to be an open competition,” Carta-Samuels told CBS Sports. “[Kelly] stressed the importance of the best guy on the field will play. That won’t be determined in one practice or two practices. All I can ask for is a fair shot. No expectations, leniencies or allegiances towards anyone. Just a fair shot to prove and battle with the other guys and see who moves the offense in the best direction.”Carta-Samuels also said that he got the sense from Kelly that the program will run an offense similar to the one he ran with the Philadelphia Read more