Georgia Bulldog kicker Rodrigo Blankenship won the Lou Groza Award over Iowa’s Keith Duncan and Washington State’s Blake Mazza. Rodrigo Blankenship won the Lou Groza fan vote thanks to Bulldog fans.
Blankenship made all 44 of his extra points on the season. He went 25-31 on field goals with a long of fifty yards. Bulldog fans will miss him, but he likely has a career at the next level in the NFL. He will leave Athens as the Georgia’s all-time leading scorer.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to Rodrigo winning the award:
What a night. What a moment for Rodrigo.#GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/yNarKRxlmA
— Georgia Bulldogs (@UGAAthletics) December 13, 2019
Here's #UGA kicker Rodrigo Blankenship and his new hardware, the Lou Groza Award. (Credit: Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images and Allen Kee / ESPN Images) pic.twitter.com/PrQP2aIqP5
— Justin Felder (@Justin_FOX5) December 13, 2019
Rodrigo Blankenship deserves that award 100% 🎉
— Logan Cooper (@TheLoganCooper) December 13, 2019
No kid has had one of the greater journeys during his college football career than Rodrigo Blankenship!!
— Jonathan Williams (@22_Jman) December 13, 2019
Rodrigo Blankenship DESERVES kicker of the year. Dude was the MVP of our season. Thank you for your sacrifice @RodTheKicker3
— Royal Spur (@SpurRoyal) December 13, 2019
fantastic! fingers crossed RT @brockemily2: RT @SECNetwork: Respect. The. Specs.
Rodrigo Blankenship is the first player in @GeorgiaFootball history to win the Lou Groza Award! https…
— Viksta (@purplepumpkin34) December 13, 2019
With Rodrigo Blankenship winning the Lou Groza award, Kirby Smart has had a player win a post season award for being their positions best
2017: Roquan Smith, Butkus award
2018: DeAndre Baker, Jim Thorpe
2019: Rodrigo Blankenship, Lou Groza
— Jacob Baker (@jacobbake13) December 13, 2019
Congratulations to Rodrigo Blankenship for winning the Lou Groza award in his 13th and final season! pic.twitter.com/0BaDYZDWNb
— Saturday Down South (@SDS) December 13, 2019
Not everybody was happy with Rodrigo winning the Award:
Brent Cimaglia: 83.3% FG, 75% 40-49, 100% 50+, longest 53, 100% XP. 2nd Team All-SEC
Rodrigo Blankenship: 80.6% FG, 72.3% 40-49, 60% 50+, longest 50, 100% XP. 1st Team All-SEC pic.twitter.com/uhFttHBmSM
— Travis Cabage (@Travis_Cabage) December 10, 2019
Rodrigo Blankenship winning that award and Gabe Brkic not even being nominated 🤦🏼‍♀️ sec is in full force tonight
— Heather Clark (@heather_clark) December 13, 2019
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