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Kirby Smart shares 3 key receivers still on the mend, updates Georgia football injuries
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Kirby Smart shares 3 key receivers still on the mend, updates Georgia football injuries
ATHENS — Georgia football coach Kirby Smart likes the energy his team is bringing into fall camp, but the Bulldogs still have two key receivers on the mend.
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I wonder if Dom will play this season, and if so how effective he will be. He's still not running and cutting at practice, that may or may not be telling.
Must admit I'm a little concerned about Blaylock's availability. It's been a full year since his injury and I thought he'd be cleared by now. I have a feeling that Jackson will be fine. I think it's probably just a matter of when he actually had his surgery, but I'm thinking that by Sept. 4, he'll be full-go. Less certain about Blaylock.
As someone who had reconstructive surgery for a completely torn ACL and torn meniscus, taking it slow and cautious with Blaylock is the absolute smart thing to do. With UGA's WR depth there is no reason to push him back for game 1. He rushed last year and reinjured the same knee. While I was older than these young athletes it took 2 full years for my knee to feel 100%. Blaylock should be back and 100% when it counts this year. Jackson's "procedure" and timeline recovery sounds like they removed some loose meniscus. Quicker recovery but result is less cartilage in the knee. Arthritis risk later in life.
Looking at Blaylock's VERY slow ACL (2nd time on the same knee) recovery timeframe has me very hesitant to even hope that Pickens will be able to go full speed by the end of the season...maybe I'm wrong. It's one thing to run straight lines, but it's quite another to take hits at your legs and make cuts, jumps, and stops going full bore. I'm not counting on either guy right now. If we get one or both back at some point this season that will just be an extra!
Definitely better safe than sorry in this recovery. Hope that is all that it is going on. This is about the end of the season much more than the beginning of it. Take it slower than is needed just to make sure. I do know one thing though. We have lost far too many receivers to injury the last couple of years. Not to mention the ones that had some type of other issue. Fromm's last year, Pickens was a freshman, Cager was the only experience really and he missed half the time and played hurt most of the time when he was playing. Heck UGA had already lost their top 6 or 7 receivers from the previous season for various reasons, which was tough enough. I think it was Blaylock ,who started coming on the 2nd half of the season to help out big time and then he went down as he had just came into his own. Think it was him. Could have been another Freshman. Regardless, we have lost too far many to injury. It sure would be nice to not lose any this season! Let's drink to that!
Number #1 and # 8 won't play a snap this year as the season is here.
#8 can't even participate in skeleton full speed drills let alone full impact practices and # 1 is 5 months out from a full blown knee injury...he's more than likely a two year starter that will never take a snap for UGA again as he declares for the NFL in early Dec.
I am really hesitant to write this but I think Saban is leading college football in a new direction as it relates to strength and conditioning. It appears to be quite different than what Bama has done in the past. He made the comment that the program in place now has lead to a reduction of soft tissue injuries by 50% which I consider to be huge. He was able to make this transition when Coach C finally was able to join Kirby.