Former Georgia football WRs Adonai Mitchell, Jermaine Burton on time with Bulldogs

INDIANAPOLIS — Adonai Mitchell left Georgia football with a pair of national championship wins and a touchdown catch in each of his four playoff games with the Bulldogs.

Jermaine Burton earned a natty ring himself with the Bulldogs right here in Lucas Oil Stadium. He’s back for the NFL Combine.

He will take part in on-field workouts on Saturday afternoon.

Their post-Georgia college football lives have been viewed differently by most Bulldogs fans.

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Mitchell, who also goes by “AD,” is still viewed fondly by most. He transferred back to his home state of Texas after the 2022 season to help care for his daughter Icylinn and heaped praise on the Georgia program and the people in it in a “Players Tribune” piece when he announced he was declaring for the NFL draft.

“Man, those couple years, I grew a lot there,” Mitchell said Friday. “Georgia, it’s not for the weak. I’d definitely say that. You go there, you’re expected to work. You’re expected to grind and most importantly you’re expected to grow on the field as a player and off the field as a person. You know you’re going to go through a lot over there. A lot of hard times. You’re going to reach the highs when you’re winning, and you’re going to reach the lows when you get into the workouts.”

Burton transferred to rival Alabama after Georgia had beaten the Crimson Tide for the program’s first national title in 41 years. When the Crimson Tide beat Georgia in the SEC championship game in December, Burton flashed a broken heart signal to Georgia fans.

“Just really pretty much having fun with the fans,” he said Friday. “That’s pretty much all that is.”

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Author : Athens Banner-Herald

Publish date : 2024-03-01 18:40:41

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