Kirby Smart on what "pissed off" Brock Bowers

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Brock Bowers’ return to the field for Saturday night’s game just 26 days removed from TightRope surgery didn’t come as a surprise to teammates or head coach Kirby Smart.

Just how badly he wanted to play, however, wasn’t truly known until Smart’s post-game press conference, following the Bulldogs' 52-17 rout of No. 9 Ole Miss.

After Bowers suffered the injury on Oct. 14 at Vanderbilt, Smart told reporters that “people,” presumably sports agents, actually called and suggested to the tight end that he “take the rest of the year off” to protect his health for next year’s NFL draft

“People called him and told him that. Those people will not be representing him, I can promise you that because all it did was piss him off,” Smart said. “He said ‘Coach, I’ve had people call me and say I shouldn’t play. That just drives me crazy, and makes me want to play more to prove them wrong. Why am I in this game if I’m not going to come back and play?’”

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