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Georgia football among four-star DE Keeshawn Silver’s top seven schools

Projected to commit in-state, Silver has a long list of scholarship offers, including UGA rivals Florida, Auburn, Georgia Tech, and Alabama.

Four-star defensive end Keeshawn Silver took to twitter to narrow down his preferred collegiate destinations.

A rising senior out of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Silver is the state’s top defensive end and fifth-ranked prospect overall. According to the recruiting analysts at 247.com, he is the eighth-best strongside defensive end of 2021’s recruiting class.

Currently projected to commit to in-state UNC, Silver has a long list of scholarship offers, including Georgia rivals Florida, Auburn, Georgia Tech, and Alabama.

Of that list, only Florida, Auburn, and Alabama made the cut. Sorry Jackets, but it’s not exactly surprising.

Silver, who began his high school athletic career primarily as a basketball player, has a high ceiling given that his talent and his new venture’s novelty.

He has not scheduled a commitment date.

CFB’s top-paid LB coaches: Where does Georgia’s Glenn Schumann rank?

Kirby Smart and company spare little expense when hiring the coaching pieces that best fit the Bulldogs’ puzzle.

Kirby Smart and company spare little expense when hiring the coaching pieces that best fit the Bulldogs’ puzzle.

Georgia inside linebackers coach and co-defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann arrived in Athens from the University of Alabama, where he worked under Smart as the Crimson Tide’s Director of Development and Associate Director of Player Personnel.

Schumann briefly held behind-the-scenes recruiting role early on in Kirby Smart’s tenure as Georgia’s head football coach before being quickly promoted to an on-field linebackers coach in 2017.

As per FootballScoop, Schumann is the third highest-earning LB coach in college football, behind Sal Sunseri of Alabama and Coleman Hutzler of Texas.

Sunseri tips the scales at $650,000 and Hutzler rakes in $600,000 under his contract. Schumann is tied at third with Washington’s Bob Gregory. Both coaches’ salaries are listed at $550,000.

Unlike the lyrics from but very much like the bank accounts of rock and roll super-group Temple of the Dog (Temple of the Dawg?), nobody on the list is going hungry.

Kirby Smart wants to eat.

He wants his players to eat (warning: language NSFW).

It would appear he wants his position coaches to eat, too.

Both former Georgia football RB’s invited to NFL Combine ran faster than Florida’s one

Just as it’s been in the SEC East every year for the past three years, the Dawgs are on top of Florida.

At this week’s NFL Scouting Combine, the University of Georgia boasts two representatives at running back. The school’s football program is known for having a one or two decent players at the position.

Georgia’s main rival has one representative running back at this year’s NFL Scouting Combine, Lamical Perine. Perine ran a 40-yard dash in 4.65 seconds compared to Swift’s 4.49 and Herrien’s 4.62.

Just as it’s been in the SEC East every year for the past three years, the Dawgs are on top of Florida.

Swift’s swift dash can be seen here:

Between the two tailbacks’ seven combined seasons in silver britches, one loss to the Gators was experienced collectively.

Georgia football’s D’Andre Swift outruns Florida football’s top RB

Despite forgoing his senior year, Swift has earned his fourth win over Florida.

The University of Georgia has a history of placing tailbacks into the NFL.

D’Andre Swift aims to be the eleventh former Georgia tailback drafted in the past twenty years and is one of ten Bulldogs invited to this year’s NFL Scouting Combine.

Rival Florida is also well-represented with eight participants, but with only one running back, Lamical Perine. Georgia provides two in Swift and Brian Herrien.

Perine completed his drill in 4.65 seconds. Compare that to Swift’s 4.49 seconds.

Swift is one of a select group of Bulldogs to finish his collegiate career undefeated against the Gators in three or more games.

Despite forgoing his senior year, Swift has earned his fourth win over Florida.

Georgia football announces kickoff time for G-Day spring scrimmage

Between the hours of 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. on April 18, Georgia fans will be able to celebrate the off-season’s halfway point.

The official website of the University of Georgia’s athletic department previously listed G-Day, the annual scrimmage concluding spring practice, as starting at a time to be announced.

School officials set the date last month, again avoiding overlap of The Masters after years of Georgia sports fans having to decide which legendary local sporting venue to visit.

Today, kickoff time was updated to be 2:00 p.m. EST on Saturday, April 18. It will air on ESPN’s SEC Network.

Thanks to SicEmDawgs.com for first noticing the update.

Following several years of at-capacity crowds (we’re talking upward of 93,000 folks, folks) for the Bulldogs’ spring scrimmage, wind and rain limited last year’s attendance to a modest 52,000 drenched Dawg fans.

Regardless of northeast Georgia’s unpredictable weather, between the hours of 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. on April 18, Georgia fans wet and dry will be able to celebrate the off-season’s halfway point.

Georgia football DL Devonte Wyatt arrested

Devonte Wyatt was arrested Monday night by on three separate charges of criminal trespassing, damage to property, and family violence.

University of Georgia defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt was arrested Monday night by the Clarke County Sheriff’s office on three separate charges of criminal trespassing, damage to property, and family violence.

All three charges are misdemeanors.

He was booked at 11:35 p.m. and his bail was listed at $1,500, as reported by the Athens Banner-Herald.

Wyatt, a transfer student out of Hutchinson Community College in Kansas, appeared in 13 games in the Bulldogs’ 2019 season and started in the team’s win over Baylor in the 2020 Sugar Bowl.

Devonte Wyatt recorded 30 tackles with 27 quarterback hurries, second-most for the Dawgs, in 2019. He has been projected as an NFL Draft pick.