What's the Ceiling for this Georgia Defense?

Probably won't hold anybody else to 15 yards in a half, but definitely not close to the ceiling in terms of consistency. There will be growing pains in the secondary, but they will continue to gain confidence and learn their roles.

There isn't a team in the country that has pass rushers like we do, so that's something. Floyd was unreal on Saturday, and Jenkins was actually very good too. He was whipping his guy more often then not, but Floyd was just beating his guy worse and beating Jenkins to the QB.

Herrera was good. Really all the ILBs showed they can play at a high level. DL was also solid.

The secondary will take its lumps along the way, but there's a lot to like. Damian Swann played more physical than he ever has, and his leadership was evident. He never showed any frustration with the young guys in the first half and trusted them throughout the game. That's a very positive sign. Corey Moore played like he was supposed to as a highly rated HS player. Sanders and Davis showed flashes. They weren't perfect, but they aren't going to be for awhile. Good news is they're athletic enough to get the job done. We don't have a talent level issue in the secondary like USCe does.

So the ceiling is high, but process of reaching it may have some bumps along the way.

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What's the Ceiling for this Georgia Defense?

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It's hard to say without knowing how good Clemson is. If Clemson finishes 10-2 losing only to FSU, then I think our defense will be much better than I thought it could be. We lost some highly recruited players out of our Secondary and my gut feel is Pruitt doesn't yet have all the players he needs to build a championship level defense. As for the ceiling on the current unit, I don't see how they could play much better than than did in the 2nd half vs Clemson. Well done Coach Pruitt!!

# Georgia Solo Ast Total Sacks-Yds TFL-Yds FF FR-Yds Int-Yds BrUp Blks QBH
52 Amarlo Herrera 5 7 12 2.0-15 3.5-18 - - - - - -
51 Ramik Wilson 5 2 7 - 0.5-1 - - - - - -
84 Leonard Floyd 3 4 7 2.0-16 2.0-16 1 - - - - -
59 Jordan Jenkins 2 4 6 - - - - - - - -
20 Quincy Mauger 4 1 5 - - - - - 1 - -
5 Damian Swann 3 2 5 - 0.5-1 - - - - - -
39 Corey Moore 4 0 4 - - - - - - - -
58 Sterling Bailey 3 1 4 - - - - - 1 - -
35 Aaron Davis 3 1 4 - - - - 1-0 1 - -
45 Reggie Carter 1 3 4 - - - - - 1 - -
42 Tim Kimbrough 1 3 4 - - - - - - - -
9A John Atkins 2 1 3 - - - - - - - -
91 Josh Dawson 2 1 3 1.0-7 2.5-9 - - - - - -
24 Dominick Sanders 2 1 3 - - - - - - - -
1 Sony Michel 2 0 2 - - - - - - - -
30 Kosta Vavlas 2 0 2 - - - - - - - -
47 Ray Drew 1 1 2 - - - - - - - -
19 Rico Johnson 1 1 2 - - - - - - - -
37 Devin Bowman 0 1 1 - - - - - 1 - -
13 Marshall Morgan 0 1 1 - - - - - - - -
89 James DeLoach 0 1 1 - - - - - - - -
Totals 46 36 82 5.0-38 9.0-45 1 0-0 1-0 5 0 0