Spring Practice

Spring Practice

Soon Georgia's football spring practice will be starting. It starts Monday, March 3 and finishes up Saturday, April 5 with the G-Day game. It should be pretty easy practices because we didn't lose many starters. I think the biggest position we need to work on is the kicker. I know Blair Walsh is coming in as a highly ranked kicker, but he won't be here for Spring Practice.

What # are you?

Numbers are a big deal in any college sport. It doesn't matter what sport it's in, college players want good numbers, whether it's in how many points you put up, how many yards you throw or run, or what the number on the back of your jersey is. Numbers Count! Georgia's redshirt freshmen understand this and have already snagged the jersey numbers they want.

Quarterback Logan Gray traded his number 19 jersey for Kregg Lumpkin's number 6 jersey.

Running back Caleb King traded the number 22 jersey for his old, number 4 jersey which was previously worn by Sean Bailey.

Wide receiver Tavarres King is number 12.

Running back Richard Samuel has number 22 while Dontavious Jackson will be wearing number 27.

Center Ben Jones will be wearing number 61.

Some players aren't able to get the numbers they want because a Senior may already be wearing their old number or in Asher Allen's case it could be retired.

"My number was 21 but that was retired by [Frank] Sinkwich and I found out very quickly nobody was touching that one," said Allen, a junior from Tucker. "So then they brought up, how about the number 2? I'd never worn a single digit. I always wore 10 or 21. But I just said, 'Let's do something different.' And I'm loving it now. I really like my number 2 now."

Some like Matthew Stafford got lucky.

Contrary to what some might think, Stafford — a lifelong and dedicated wearer of the number 7 — was not promised the digit by the Bulldogs despite being one of the most highly touted quarterback prospects in the country.

"It was open both at Texas and here," Stafford said. "It worked out perfect because Bryan Evans wanted 3 but D.J. Shockley was here his first year so [Evans] wore 7 and, when Shock left, Bryan went back to 3. So it was wide open for me."