Georgia players and coaches were asked if any of the new players have stood out during the first five days of preseason camp. Two names came up repeatedly on Monday.
Reggie Davis and Leonard Floyd.
Davis is a true freshman wide receiver from Tallahassee while Floyd is an outside linebacker who came to Georgia from Hargrave Military Academy prep school after graduating from Dodge County High.
“Some of the guys have been talking about Leonard Floyd,” Richt said. “Leonard’s been having a good camp to this point. And Toby (Johnson), for a guy coming off of ACL surgery, he’s really moving around well right now.”
Backup quarterback Hutson Mason and wide receiver Michael Bennett also mentioned Floyd, who looks taller than his listed height of 6-foot-4 and arrived on campus weighing 220 pounds.
“The other day in 11-on-11, I was rolling out and I was getting pressure and threw a ball and he must have gone up 10 feet in the air and tipped it,” Mason said. “He’s so long and so lanky. When he puts on some more weight he’ll be really dangerous because he can run, too.”
Mason also referred to a play when in which Floyd was “chasing down a tailback the other day coming from the other side of the field. You can just see his raw ability and just being able to run. It’s freaky; it really is.”
Mason and Bennett, separately of one another, also mentioned Davis, a 159-pound speedster out of Lincoln High in Tallahassee, Fla. He was lining up with the second-team offense some on Monday.
“The dude’s really fast,” Bennett said. “He can fly.”
Said Mason: “Reggie’s speed is in a different class than really everybody else on the team. He got here in the summer and I didn’t even know who he was. But he made a name for himself real quick when he ran a ‘go’ route. He’s pretty little; he’ll have to put on some weight. But he’s got kind of like a fiery attitude to him, which Bobo loves.”
Mason was asked if Davis is faster than junior Justin Scott-Wesley, who won multiple Class AA state title in the 100 and 200 meters. “In a straight one-on-one race for 40 yards, I think so,” Mason said of Davis, who was part of his school’s 4x100 state championship team. “He can fly, man. He’s skinny now; you can flick him. But just racing one-on-one, he can move.”
Richt also mentioned cornerbacks Brendan Langley and Shaq Wiggins and linebackers Tim Kimbrough and Johnny O’Neal.
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