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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Ridiculously early guesses about UGA’s class of 2009
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Understand: These are not predictions. I’ve sworn off predictions until the Final Four Fiasco, and besides, when I make a prediction I like to think I know a little bit about what I’m saying. (Insert your own punch line here.) These are flat-out guesses about Georgia’s recruiting class. And I’m guessing:
- That Branden Smith, the defensive back from Washington High, will make the biggest immediate splash - and also the widest, given that Mark Richt plans to let him return kicks and wants to work him into the offense.
- That Aaron Murray, the quarterback from Tampa, won’t be redshirted next season but that Zach Mettenberger, the quarterback from Oconee County, will.
- That Abry Jones, the defensive tackle from Northside Warner Robins, will play as a true freshman, but that Montez Robinson, the defensive end from Avon, Ind., will play even more.
- That Marlon Brown, the touted receiver from Memphis, won’t be as good as A.J. Green was as a freshman - given that Green is the best Georgia receiver I’ve ever seen, that’s no real knock - but will still be starting by the end of September.
- That Georgia will regret, not for the first time, having signed so few offensive linemen. There are only three in this class of 18, and if recent seasons should have taught the Bulldogs anything it’s that linemen are like pitchers - you can never have enough.
- That this will go down in Georgia annals as a good class but not a great one, and that these new guys will enable the Bulldogs to hang onto second place in the SEC East for the next two or three years. (Take that, Lane Kiffin.)
Again, these are guesses. I’d be intrigued and obliged to hear yours. Which is where that empty white block below figures in. Have at it, recruitniks.
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