Georgia Football
Did You Know? » Georgia has more combined recipients of the NCAA and National Football Foundation Post-Graduate Scholarship, NCAA Top Eight Award, and Academic All-America honors than any university in the South.
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SI.com ranked Athens, Ga., as the second-best sports town in the country and Athlon chose Athens as the No. 2 city in the SEC.
» In the past 19 years, 99
Georgia players have been chosen in the NFL Draft, including No. 1 Matthew Stafford and No. 12 Knowshon Moreno in 2009, No. 4 A.J. Green in 2011, No. 17 Jarvis Jones and No. 30 Alec Ogletree in 2013 and No. 10 Todd Gurley in 2015.
» Georgia is the only school to have three different Super Bowl MVPs: Jake Scott of the Miami Dolphins, Terrell Davis of the Denver Broncos and Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
» A total of six National
Football Foundation National Scholar-Athletes played in Super Bowl XLIV, including the Saints’ Jon Stinchcomb. Matt Stinchcomb, Jon’s brother, won the Campbell Trophy in 1998 as college football’s top scholarathlete, and he played in Super Bowl XXXVIII for the Oakland Raiders – the first overall and just the second Campbell Trophy honoree to play in the Super Bowl.
» Georgia ranks fourth in the
last decade and 14th all-time for number of players drafted by the NFL.
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Former Bulldog and current Carolina Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis was honored as the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year before Super Bowl XLIX.
“Coach Richt’s commitment to recruiting and then developing our student-athletes is based on his genuine desire to help his players achieve greatness on and off the field. Following Coach Richt’s lead, we focus our recruiting efforts on the elite student-athletes who also desire to achieve greatness in the classroom, on the field and beyond.” Bryan McClendon Recruiting Coordinator 2014 National Recruiter of the Year
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Johnny Brown Fall 2001
Randall Kendrick Fall 2001
Dave Claasen Spring 2002
Ryan Fleming Spring 2002
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Hap Hines Spring 2002
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Curt McGill Spring 2002
LaBrone Mitchell Spring 2002
Justin Reynolds Spring 2002
Braxton Snyder Spring 2002