Their list is here.
Athlon has four All-SEC teams and the Bulldogs have 13 selections. Alabama has 18. Texas A&M is third, with 12. Tennessee is the only regular-season opponent with double-digit selections (10), while Kentucky, Auburn, and Mississippi State have nine each. For reference, last year the Crimson Tide had 16 players on the list with 16 Dawgs making one of the four teams. This year there are five UGA players on the first team, four on the second team, two on the third team, and two on the fourth team.
Sophomore tight end Brock Bowers and redshirt sophomore left tackle Broderick Jones made the first-team offense while the defensive first-team includes junior defensive tackle Jalen Carter, senior outside linebacker Nolan Smith, and redshirt sophomore cornerback Kelee Ringo. Senior running back Kenny McIntosh, junior center Sedrick Van Pran, and senior safety Chris Smith made the second-team offense and defense, with wide receiver Kearis Jackson being named a second-team specialist as a punt returner. Junior right tackle Warren McClendon and senior outside linebacker Robert Beal were the third-team selections, with sophomore wideout Adonai Mitchell and redshirt sophomore tight end Arik Gilbert being selected to the fourth-team offense. In all, Georgia has seven All-SEC selections on offense, five on defense, and one on special teams.
No Stetson Bennett there. Quelle surprise.
What will be a legitimate surprise is if Gilbert finishes the season as merely the fourth best tight end in the conference.
By the way, Florida has six names total on the list, none on the first team. The Gators sure could use a coaching genius on the sideline to offset that.
You mean MuLLLLLLen didn’t leave a roster of coached up talent behind??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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FTMF. They ain’t ready for this. They ain’t ready for NONE OF THIS.
Also, Brock Bowers is a bad, bad man.
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IMO, he’s a first-teamer against the run, but blows in pass coverage.
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“Can’t make sense of why he’d be first team anything…“*
I dunno, either. Maybe because he has a last name with two apostrophes and he plays for Alabama?
This isn’t to say I don’t think he is a good player; it’s just that preseason anything is only a way to keep people interested waiting for games to begin, and drive magazine sales (in the old days) and clicks currently.
I haven’t looked at the group this year, but in the past when I looked it was always easy to agree with about 60-70% and scratch your head a bit about the others. I’m like the Senator – I know Arik didn’t play last year, but they have him on the fourth team?
We had 5 players go in the first round NFL draft and I wonder how many were All-SEC last year?
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That summary doesn’t exactly scream First Team All SEC, does it?
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I wouldn’t put him there, but you know how that ‘Bama magic works…
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Exactly. I don’t know why they don’t just put ‘Bama down for the entire 1st team, then let the rest of the league peasants fight for the crumbs at 2nd thru honorable mention 😉
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they’re still going to let people throw the ball this year, right???? That seems like it could be a bit of a sticky wicket for Henry. He’s a good college LB, but he ain’t going to be able to cover any of our 4 TEs. Just sayin’…
in Henry’s defense, I’m not sure anyone else is, either.
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I don’t understand the love for #10. Aldo, would Burton be 2nd team if still @ UGA?
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“Also”
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Who knows. This list was done by an intern
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No.
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To’oTo’o is Samoan for “out of position”…
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No lies detected
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i thought it was Samoan for tutu
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I would venture to say that we have the top 2 tight ends in the country
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Top 3… 😉
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Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith second team…yeah, okay.
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Bulletin board material.
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Stetson likes to play with a chip on his shoulder so maybe it’s good they snubbed him.
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2 gold star stickers for the line “By the way, Florida has six names total on the list, none on the first team. The Gators sure could use a coaching genius on the sideline to offset that.”
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Jalen Carter 2nd team? Ok, where’s the punch line?
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Don’t tell Carter he’s 2nd team. Not sure anyone wants to be around when he gets bad news.
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They go 4-deep on their All-Conference selections? JHC – they’re REALLY digging for that “Seeeeeee… we told you we thought that we knew that he maybe might be pretty good this year.”
And you thought they didn’t know what a Eugoogaly was.
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These pre-season lists are like the popularity contests as high school seniors. Get back to me in twenty years…
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This must be mistaken, I don’t see Metchie or Williams on the first team?
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I wish someone could explain to me why McClendon doesn’t get the love. He has been so solid at RT for two years.
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More talkin seaso. Exhibit A – the # of our Dawgs on last year’s preseason lists shorted. Hope this year they get it right.
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