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UGA great Geno Atkins leads all NFL DT in this stat category

Check out this stat by Pro Football Focus on former Georgia Bulldog Geno Atkins. Details here.

Former Georgia Bulldog Geno Atkins has long been one of the top defensive tackles in the NFL. He was named to the 2010’s All-Decade Team, despite being an undervalued fourth round pick out of Georgia.

Atkins measured at six-foot-one, 293 pounds at the 2010 NFL Combine, significantly smaller than the prototypical NFL defensive tackle, but his size, or lack there of, has not mattered one bit.

Pro Football Focus recently released their list of defensive tackles with the highest amount of quarterback pressures since 2010 and, no it’s not three-time Defensive Player of the Year, Aaron Donald.

Granted, Donald was drafted by the Rams in 2014, so Atkins has about a four-year head start, but regardless, Atkins has proved to be one of the best interior defensive lineman in this generation and looks to be on track for Canton one day.

Don’t forget the 8-time Pro Bowl selection got his start in Athens where he earned First-Team All-SEC honors in 2007 and Second-Team All-SEC honors in 2009.

Now, Atkins enters his 12th season for the Cincinnati Bengals in the third-year of a four-year, $65 million contract extension that he signed back in 2018.

Check out what Atkin’s opponents had to say about the two-time First Team All-Pro in this NFL Top 100 Players feature (2019):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isTi_molMVA

 

 

Watch: Did former Georgia Bulldog intentionally step on UGA rookie OL?

Cincinnati Bengals safety Shawn Williams seems to intentionally step on Miami Dolphins guard Solomon Kindley. Watch it here

On Sunday, the Miami Dolphins (8-4) visited the Cincinnati Bengals (2-9-1) in what became an incredibly contentious game between players and coaches from both sides.

Among the numerous scuffles and outbursts was an incident between Dolphins guard Solomon Kindley and Bengals safety Shawn Williams, both former Georgia Bulldogs.

Kindley is having a productive rookie season for the Dolphins as their 2020 fourth round pick and Williams, a 2013 third round pick, is in his eighth year with the Bengals and in the last year of a four-year contract extension he signed with Cincinnati in 2016.

On a Miami first down run late in the second quarter, Kindley followed the play and attempted to jump on the pile to get a push forward and hit Williams in the back in the process, prompting a retaliation.

 

Kindley took to Twitter after the game in response to Williams’ dirty move.

True Dawg on Dawg crime here.

And to top it off, later in the fourth quarter Williams, along with two Dolphins receivers, was ejected for throwing punches.

 

 

 

 

Georgia football play of the day: A.J. Green vs Arizona State (2008)

Watch A.J. Green’s impressive freshman performance versus Arizona State in 2010 here!

It’s Thursday, August 27 and today’s play of the day is more like play(s).

We are making an exception for Georgia receiver legend A.J. Green and instead of highlighting one of the plays from the Bulldogs’ match up with Arizona State in 2010, let’s watch all of his catches from his dominant freshman performance.

Sometimes I think Green isn’t appreciated quite enough for how great he was for Georgia and this clip is a great example of just how good he was, as a freshman nonetheless.

Green finished with 8 catches for 159 yards and a touchdown on the way to a 27-10 Georgia win. He would also go on that year to break the UGA freshman receiving record for receptions in a season with 56.

Green was drafted No. 4 overall by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2011 NFL Draft. He became the first rookie Pro Bowl receiver in eight years and now, continues to lead the Bengals receiver room in his ninth season.

AJ Green will skip Bengals OTA’s if franchise tagged

Georgia Football great AJ Green will skip OTAs if franchise tagged by the Cincinnati Bengals.

Georgia great AJ Green is one of the most humble, drama-free players in the NFL.

However, when it came time to step up and think about himself first, Green did so.

Good for Green, who has sat the whole season, a contract year, with injury.

Last offseason, Green said multiple times that he would like to stay in Cincinnati and finish his career there.

The two parties have not reached a deal that would allow him to play out the rest of his career in Cincy, and the Bengals have said they would franchise tag Green if they could not reach a long-term deal.

To that, Green responded that he would play the regular season, but will skip OTAs and maybe training camp.

Green, 31, would be paid $18m next season if he is tagged by the Bengals.

Green gets that, but he said it makes him feel like the team is not committed to him.

“But that also shows that they’re not committed, and in that circumstance,” Green told ESPN, “I have to protect myself.”

If the Bengals do tag Green, they will have until July to reach a deal before the tag turns into a one year contract.

If no deal is reached, Green will not participate in much preseason training.

Can you blame him, though? He’s on the wrong side of 30, he has a history of getting injured and he’s still one of the best receivers in the NFL when healthy.

He does not need training camp or OTAs anyway. He’s AJ Green.

Why risk injuring yourself in practice when you’re franchise tagged rather than under a long-term deal?