It’s no secret that there was a need for Georgia’s run game to improve coming into this season. When you have a new quarterback starting, a huge ally is a strong running game.
With experience built up within this running back room amid a mix of new faces incoming, the expectation was for this running back group to not be a weak point of this offense.
That has played out, but perhaps not in the way that was envisioned a few months back. If you watched how last year ended, you would assume that Nate Frazier and the transferring in Josh McCray would be the bell cows with Chauncey Bowens being more of a role player.
But in-game circumstances can be a funny thing, and Bowens has emerged. In truth, if Georgia wants to be a physical running team, Bowens is a better fit with the way he runs, and Frazier is not as much of a zero-in option. Clearly, Frazier’s fumbles as of late and Bowens’ running the past two games have factored in as well.
But even with Bowens’ stock rising, that’s not to say that Frazier is being left behind. It almost reminds you of the 2004-era running back room led by Thomas Brown and Danny Ware, where someone may have had the hot hand for a time, but Georgia also would not be afraid to pivot to who was running the ball the best at the time, where it was not so much one running back, but a group of backs that’d run not ahead of one another, but with each other.
Bowens may be the primary lead running back for Georgia now, but before the season ends, it’d be an expectation to see guys like Frazier, Cash Jones, McCray, and Dwight Phillips play important roles.
From a 3-star prospect and coach’s kid to a starter on the offensive line. The Banner-Herald takes a closer look at the journey of Drew Bobo. When you play a position like center, the measure of success is that your name is not mentioned during the game, meaning that there are no egregious issues with the snap. To this point, Bobo has held up that end of the bargain.
Dillon Bell has been all things swiss army knife within Georgia’s offense. Auburn’s key on defense? Making someone else beat them, according to SI.
And since it’s Auburn week, you’ve got to do the Dawg Story…
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