Georgia linebacker Amarlo Herrera said Jeremy Pruitt didn’t congratulate him for winning the SEC defensive player of the week award and that’s just fine with him.
“I don’t care about that stuff,” Herrera said following Wednesday’s practice. “It doesn’t mean anything why worry about that kind of stuff? It is what it is at the end of the day.”
Though he wasn’t particularly moved by the distinction, it seemed well-deserved. Herrera had 12 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and two sacks in the 45-21 win over Clemson. He led a Georgia defense that shut out the Tigers and held them to 15 yards after halftime. It was the first SEC award of Herrera’s career.
While Herrera acknowledged he had a decent individual game, he credited Pruitt, the Bulldogs’ first-year coordinator.
“The scheme we play helped me, how we’re blitzing and the things we’re doing that I didn’t do last year,” he said. “I got a chance to get after the quarterback a little bit. But that was last week. I don’t know how it will be (against South Carolina).”
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