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No returning FBS quarterback threw for more yards than Carson Beck’s 3,941 last season.
There’s little reason to believe that Beck can’t match or top that this season in his second year as the Georgia football starter.
A big reason: the many options in the Bulldogs’ wide receiver group.
“Shoot, our whole receiver room, it’s deep, man,” junior Dillon Bell said. “We’ve got a lot of guys two, three deep at one position, where guys can make plays. I feel like we’ve got the best receiving corps in the SEC. Not only the SEC, in the nation. We’ve got a lot of weapons.”
Georgia has eight different wide receivers who caught touchdown passes last season.
The group was ranked sixth nationally at the position by On3’s Jesse Simonton.
“One thing I can say is we have depth,” said Dominic Lovett, the team’s top returning receiver with 54 catches for 613 yards and 4 touchdowns last season and who by all accounts upped his game even more this spring. “We help each other out. Everybody is getting better every day. We’re growing, learning the playbook. Trying to learn different positions so we can be more versatile.”
Beck won’t be able to throw anymore to tight end Brock Bowers and wide receiver Ladd McConkey—the No. 13 and 34 overall NFL Draft picks—but there’s no shortage of targets for him.
“We’ve added a couple of wrinkles that fit what Carson does and fit what our wideouts do because it may not all be Brock Bowers based,” coach Kirby Smart said last week on WFOX-FM 94.5 in Birmingham. “It may be some other guys involved.”
Bell led the Bulldogs with 7 catches for 86 yards in the drilling of Florida State in the Orange Bowl. He scored four touchdowns on the season—two receiving coming against Florida and Tennessee while making 29 catches for 355 yards.
“There’s a lot of different…
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Author : Athens Banner-Herald
Publish date : 2024-05-15 08:02:56
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