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Patriots C David Andrews thinks Georgia football should be considered ‘OLU’

Patriots C David Andrews thinks it’s time for Georgia football to be called ‘OLU’ after having two more first round NFL Draft picks.

On Thursday night, Georgia had two offensive linemen selected in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

Left tackle Andrew Thomas went #4 to the New York Giants and right tackle Isaiah Wilson went at #29 to the Tennessee Titans.

That gives Georgia three first-round selections from the offensive line in the last three drafts. Isaiah Wynn went in the first round to the Patriots in 2018, and then two went in 2020.

David Andrews, another former Georgia offensive lineman now in the NFL, actually went undrafted in the 2015 NFL Draft. But it did not take Andrews long to be hiking the ball to the greatest quarterback in NFL history and to become a two-time Super Bowl champion.

After both Thomas and Wilson became first round selections, Andrews tweeted that maybe it’s time for Georgia to be considered ‘OLU’ – meaning Offensive Line University.

Georgia has called itself RBU for years now thanks to all the running back talent UGA pumps into the NFL.

But I see nothing wrong with the addition of OLU.

Andrews also made an announcement of his own on Thursday, posting to Instagram that he has been cleared to play in 2020 for the Patriots after missing all of 2019 with blood clots in his lungs.

Georgia football is recent history’s LBU

Is it possible to be both LBU and RBU? It is, because apparently the University of Georgia is, at least in the BCS and playoff eras.

The University of Georgia’s football program has long been known for its development of tailbacks and consequently stakes among the strongest claims to the title of RBU, or running back university. Ten tailbacks in the past 20 NFL Drafts have seen professional action by way of Athens, Georgia.

(Interesting piece of trivia: 34 Georgia running backs have been selected in the draft. That number looks a bit familiar when discussing Bulldog tailbacks.)

However, the Dawgs dominate at a different position at the NFL Draft, sending 20 linebackers to the National Football League, more than any other school can claim across the same span of time.

To put that number in perspective, only 14 Bulldog linebackers had been drafted prior to the year 2000.

(Which brings us to more happenstance trivia: that equates the total of tailbacks drafted from Georgia.)

Is it possible for one school to be both LBU and RBU? It is, because apparently the University of Georgia is, at least in the BCS and playoff eras.

It might have something to do with two incredibly talented position groups running into, over, but ultimately with each other across twenty years’ worth of practices.

Iron sharpens iron, et cetera, et cetera.