UGA Football: New Wideouts Becoming Top Targets

Freshman tight end Brock Bowers has very quickly become a big, productive part of the Georgia offense, an offense that through three games is showing that it’s quite happy slinging the ball around the field.

In Saturday’s 40-13 win over South Carolina at Sanford Stadium, Bowers again led the No. 2-ranked Bulldogs in receptions and targets. He was targeted eight times and finished with five catches for 53 yards, with 26 total yards after the catch. The Bulldogs’ first offensive play was a 21-yard strike from junior quarterback JT Daniels to an open Bowers moving toward the right sideline.

A speedy 6-foot-4 and 230 pounds, as he dramatically demonstrated during his 89-yard touchdown against UAB last week when he outran everyone for about 79 yards, Bowers is from the outset of his career proving to be tough for defenses to handle.

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