The Georgia Bulldogs conducted their first full-contact practice in full pads on Tuesday and they wasted no time in getting down to the nitty-gritty.
Just four periods, or about 30 minutes, into the practice, the entire team sprinted to the west end of the newly-sodded grass practice fields and broke into three groups — linemen, tight ends and linebackers, and skill players — mmediately launched into the infamous “Oklahoma” drills.
Moments before, head coach Mark Richt had yelled to no one in particular, “I feel it coming; I feel it coming.”
It was short but it was mighty, mighty intense. In what amounted to a mob scrum, the players huddled tightly around each drill with the offensive and defensive players urging on their respective sides. The drill features three blockers facing three tacklers with a quarterback handing the ball off to a back or receiver on a snap count.
Tailback Keith Marshall was the first to tote the ball in the first-come, first-serve format. Freshman tailback Nick Chubb was the second, at the considerable cajoling of star running back Todd Gurley.
Freshman tailback Sony Michel broke through clean to score twice. Chubb did once, as did Marshall. Gurley chose a Herschel Walker leap over the pile in his one of his two repetitions but was stopped upon landing. Freshman receiver Isaiah McKenzie also scored once.
And as quickly as it began, it was over. Elapsed time: a little over five minutes.
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