Heading into the second full week of preseason camp, tight end would appear to be a position of concern for the Bulldogs. But not for Georgia coach Mark Richt.
Junior Jay Rome is still unable to go full speed on consecutive days, nobody outside the team is sure what’s up with three-day absentee Jordan Davis and there is zero game experience among the rest of them.
Richt, however, likes what he’s seeing from converted fullback Quayvon Hicks and Georgia’s offense in general.
“Quayvon has become a legitimate tight end,” Richt said. “He’s not just a fullback trying to be a tight end. To me he’s really become a tight end who can still play fullback. That’s an advantage to him.”
Richt also pointed out that the Bulldogs’ offense is versatile enough to utilize different personnel sets if they don’t like what they’re getting out of the tight ends.
“We always practice different personnel groupings in case there is some kind of catastrophe at the tight end position,” he said. “We can function without tight ends. We can got with three-receiver, two-back sets, four-receiver, one-back sets. We’ll always have those in our arsenal just in case we need to lean on that more heavily.”
That said, the Bulldogs would prefer to build on their strong tight end legacy.
“Hopefully by the time we get to the game we’ll have the ability to play all of our tight end sets,” Richt said. “We anticipate having tight ends in our games.”
