re: 2026 Transfer Portal Thread (Jamal Meriweather to the portal)

Yeah a smokin’’ left tackle would’ve been nice. $$$

Dominic Kelly to the portal per 247. This shite is just stupid.

Dom Kelly, man this one stings.

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Is it just me or does it seem like our incoming portal players are overall a step up from last year?

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Idk that anyone is likely to make the impact Zachariah Branch did

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For 2025, we returned 12 OL with slightly less experience, on average, than this round. At first glance, receiver looks most questionable; returning 8 but they're a young group.

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I think we'll have 2 and 3 tight ends on the field next season even more than we have in the past, for better or worse. It's fun when it works and you shove the ball down the other team's arse, but it stunts the progress of the downfield passing game and what happens in a shootout.

There's no point in even flinching about this anymore. The days of stockpiling talent like Saban are over, unless you have some really deep pocket boosters and are willing to flaunt the rules. If a player has been here one year and he's not expecting to start, he's at risk. Even if he is expecting to start, he's still at risk but nobody should care about those because they're not team players, just mercenaries. The inability to stockpile talent is not a bug in this new system, it's the main feature and is working as designed by people who weren't happy with the previous outcomes.

I'm sure Kirby knew Kelly was looking. People think Kelly left because Georgia added a couple of corners in the portal. Just as likely, they added an extra corner because they knew some were looking. Probably a couple more players will leave in the next day or two and the staff will have already accounted for that too.

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We've used tight ends to push the ball downfield too. It actually works really well in college because most college linebackers are bad in pass coverage. They blow assignments and they can't cover well.

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My concern would be what happens in the 2 minute drill or when you fall behind 2 scores in the fourth quarter and you don't have Zacchariah Branch. 12 and 13 personnel is cool as long as it doesn't stunt the deveopment of the wide receivers.

When you say use all of the weapons, what are those again?

Box is stacked. 3rd and 10. Season on the line. Gunner may or may not be concussed again. Who are you getting the ball to with confidence to convert that?

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Box is stacked. 3rd and 10. Season on the line. Gunner may or may not be concussed again. Who are you getting the ball to with confidence to convert that?

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I would roll Gunner out to the right with 2 TE blocking and Branch lined up on the left side and breaking across the middle in a down and out to the right. The RB trailing Gunner to block anyone who get's past the TEs.
Fake a pitch to the RB and then Gunner fakes a run down the right sideline and then throws the pass over the head of the oncoming defenders to Branch as he is crossing beyond the line to gain.

Bottom line: Branch is our quickest/fastest receiver and has the moves to get open. At 6'1" Gunner is not the ideal passer in that situation when you know pressure is coming from their front 7 with 3rd and long so you roll him out with protection to give him time to see the field.

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If I interpret this accurately, you seem to be implying that UGA doesn't have any offensive talent on the roster. I don't know how any rational person could believe that. There are rosters posted multiple places on the internet. Go study one and research the players.

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Our leading returning wide receiver had 18 catches for 278 yards this season and our second returning wide receiver had 8 catches for 70 yards. Unless you think that Isiah Canion is Julio Jones, OP was making a valid point and there's reason not to be super optimistic. No need to be smartallicky.