Second scrimmage in the books

First let me put the stats from our scrimmage yesterday down (per Seth Emerson's blog), then I will give my take for what it is worth.

RUSHING
Brandon Harton 12-51, long of 17
Ken Malcome 5-10, long of 5
Ok, so we knew that Samuel and Crowell would not be scrimmaging, but what about Thomas? Seems to me this scrimmage, as far as back are concerned, was about seeing which one of these guys would be 3rd team in game one, fourth team in game 2. Granted, Malcome only got 5 carries but if you break down his stats, taking out his long of 5, he had 4 carries for 5 yards-OUCH! As for Harton-the former walkon recently awarded a full ride, take away his long carry of 17, he averarge 3 yards a carry. Not great but not horrible either. Maybe Malcome is still not 100%, maybe he was rushing against the first team D while Harton was against the second team but I guess I just expected more out of Boo. Not giving up on him just yet though.


PASSING
Hutson Mason 13-27, 125 yards
Aaron Murray 11-for-16, 108 yards, 1 TD 1 INT
Christian LeMay 2-3, 12 yards
Judging by the attempts, again it is evident who will be our backup QB. LeMay looks headed for a redshirt year, I just have to think Mason will end up leaving after this year. The kid is a decent QB and can get PT at some smaller schools for sure, maybe even a bigger school. He averaged almost 10 yards a completion. Course he was not very accurate. Muarray average almost the identical yards per completion and was much more accurate although he did toss an INT. Clearly though, this scrimmage was more about getting Mason attempts.


RECEIVING
Israel Troupe 5-50
Rantavious Wooten 5-61, 1 TD
Malcolm Mitchell 3-37
Arthur Lynch 2-35
 
Two scrimmages, still no stats for TKing or Charles-well, clearly we know what we have in those guys so the coaches are working the other wideouts. Good to see Troupe and Wooten making some plays, also Mitchell and Lynch. Obviously there were others that had catches, considering the QB's completed 26 passes and yet only 15 catches are accounted for in the stats released.


KICKING
Blair Walsh was 4-for-6, long of 49

I heard the snaps were not good yesterday but Walsh does not concern me in the least-he will be steady and solid this year.


DEFENSE
Alec Ogletree 8 (four solo), 1 sack, 1 PD
Shawn Williams 7 (three solo)
Bacarri Rambo 6 (four solo), 1 INT
Jordan Love 6 (four solo)
Brandon Boykin 5 (five solo), 1 PD
Jarvis Jones 5 (two solo), 1 sack
DeAngelo Tyson 5, 1 sack
Damian Swann 4 tackles, 2 PD
Derek Owens 4 tackles, 2 PD

As is becoming usual, Tree leads in tackles again. There is no doubt he is going to be a major force on our D this year. Glad to see Boykin back in the stats, good to see Rambo with a pick.Good numbers for Tyson and Jarvis Jones. Not quite sure what to make of the number of tackles our safeties made-Williams, Rambo, way up there in tackle along with Love as well. Guess when you are completing passes with an average length of 9-10 yards, your safeties are going to make some tackles.

Per Coach Richt, Crowell looks to possibly be back to practice on Friday. I would NOT rush him back, obviously he NEEDS practice, he needs to become more comfortable with his role in the backfield, learn the plays, learn his assignments etc, but first and foremost he needs to be 100%. Groin injuries are a lot like hamstring injuries, if you rush back too soon, you are more likely to pull them again. The tricky part is, as the injury heals, from all accounts a player feels like he is 100% but he might truly only be 80-90%. He comes back too soon and then the next pull is worse than the first one. It is best to play it safe and I have complete confidence in our medical/training staff to make the right decision.

UGA finally suffered its first major injury of fall camp, Jakar Hamilton is done for the year with an ankle break. He does have his redshirt year to use so he can come back for his 5th year next fall if he so chooses. I have no reason to believe he would not want to come back. Hamilton was getting strong looks on special teams and also as a reserve safety. This opens up more PT potentially for our top recruit saftey, Corey Moore.

Finally, here are the Haney predictions as of now for starting offense and defense for Sept. 3rd.

OT-Glenn
OG-Gates
C-Jones
G-Burnette
OT-Anderson
TE-Charles
WR-TKing
WR-Brown
FB-Figgins
TB-Crowell (I have said all along, Richt has told him he would get the first carry of 2011-just my prediction)
QB-Murray

DT-Tyson
NT-Jenkins
DT-Jones
OLB-Jarvis Jones
MLB-Robinson
MLB-Tree
OLB-Washington
CB-Boykin
CB-B. Smith
S-Rambo
S-Williams