To be honest, I didn’t see this coming.
Here’s the list:
- Arian Smith (4th Round), Dominic Lovett (7th) – 2025
- Ladd McConkey (2nd) – 2024
- George Pickens (2nd) – 2022
- Mecole Hardman (2nd), Riley Ridley (4th),Terry Godwin (7th) – 2019
- Javon Wims (7th) – 2018
- Isaiah McKenzie (5th) – 2017 (note: He was Georgia’s ONLY draft pick in 2017)
- Malcolm Mitchell (4th) – 2016
- Chris Conley (3rd) – 2015
- Tavarres King (5th) – 2013
- AJ Greene (1st), Kris Durham (4th) – 2011
If you attribute Mitchell and McKenzie to Richt, then Kirby’s receiver room makes up half the list, though I’d argue McKenzie didn’t come into his own until Smart took over. If you add in the tight ends, it’s almost an embarrassment of riches:
- Brock Bowers (1st) – 2024
- Darnell Washington (3rd) – 2023
- John FitzPatrick (6th) – 2022
- Tre’ McKitty (3rd) – 2021
- Charlie Woerner (6th) – 2020
- Isaac Nauta (7th) – 2019
- Arthur Lynch (4th) – 2014
- Orson Charles (4th) – 2012
By my count, that makes 16 pass catchers drafted since Kirby arrived in Athens in ten years. Richt drafted 13 from 2002-2016.
Tell me again why a receiver should avoid Athens, Georgia, as a future college destination?
Bobo and blocking!
We need overpaid, prima donna, wimps!! You know, like the ones who play on teams we beat!
This only makes sense to couch coordinators.
It’s our lack of 1000-yard receivers. LSU and the Bucknuts like to focus on 1 or 2 receivers a year and get those guys video game numbers. So the “elite” WRs with visions of a top-5 draft pick go there. They don’t want to share the wealth, and those fingernail-painting prima donnas don’t want to block either.
We but RBs, OLs and defensive players in the NFL. Even a OC. The key position we don’t is….
Dammit Bobo.
1) Bobo
2) Coley
3) Chaney