ATHENS — The Georgia offense has plenty of questions to answer entering into next season, and redshirt freshman Earnest Greene lll is one of them.
Greene, a redshirt freshman from the elite high school ranks of Southern California’s Trinity League via St. John Bosco, is penciled in to fill the sizable shoes projected first-round left tackle Broderick Jones left behind.
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It’s safe to assume that whoever wins the QB job won’t have the luxury of bulletproof pass protection like Stetson Bennett was afforded -- the Bulldogs allowed just 9 sacks all season (15 games), and none were given up by the offensive tackles in the perimeter.
There will be plenty of competition at the position, of course, as Greene didn’t take so much as one snap last season on account of injuries; first his hamstring, and by October, a back injury that required surgery.
Yet and still, Greene’s name is the first to come up when discussing the left tackle position with Jones himself at the NFL Combine last week in Indianapolis.
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