C.J. Beathard was enjoying a family reunion at the beach in Kitty Hawk, N.C., sitting alongside his aunt Karen. She asked him about losing the starting quarterback job to Jimmy Garoppolo last December.
“Did it hurt your ego?” Karen Beathard asked with a laugh, knowing her unassuming nephew had always put his team first dating to his earliest football days in grade school.
“Not at all,” he responded. “Because I know God has a plan, and it’s for him to decide when it’s my time. I’ll learn more (as a backup), so I’m going to use it as a positive.