4. A.J. Green (wide receiver)
Class of 2008 | Summerville, South Carolina | Nation’s No. 7 ranked player
Probably the only player on this list that lived up to the hype at Georgia, A.J. Green came to UGA as an athletic, lanky, 6-foot-4 superstar out of Summerville, South Carolina, who excelled in football and basketball. His sensational one-handed catch in high school made him a legend before ever stepping foot on campus.
His freshman season was outstanding in Athens. In the fourth game of his college career, against Arizona State, he had eight catches for 159 yards and a touchdown in the 27–10 victory. That was his coming-out party, and he never looked back. Green finished his college career with 2,619 receiving yards, third all-time in Georgia history. He was the fourth overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft by the Cincinnati Bengals, with whom he has spent his entire career. Green made the Pro Bowl in each of his first seven years in the league, and he is the only player other than Randy Moss to record 1,000+ receiving yards in each of his five seasons.
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