QB Murray returns to practice; throws ball ‘extremely well,’ Richt says
(Updated 8:45 p.m.)
As Georgia’s football team resumed preparations Monday for its regular-season finale against Georgia Tech, quarterback Aaron Murray returned to the practice field for the first time since suffering knee and sternum injuries against Auburn.
Coach Mark Richt said on his radio call-in show Monday night that Murray threw the ball “extremely well,” although Richt cautioned that practice conditions are quite different from game conditions for Georgia quarterbacks.
“Aaron is doing well,” Richt said. “He got to practice today. He went through the whole thing. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s ready to play [under game conditions]. But because we don’t hit our quarterbacks in practice, he was able to do everything we asked him to do. I’m not sure how he would have handled getting hit and tackled to the ground and having the full weight of one or two guys land on him. I don’t know how he’d do in that situation right now.
“But he does feel a lot better. He threw the ball extremely well. If he keeps getting better — like he said today, ‘Coach, I got five more days.’ I hope by the end of the week he’ll feel good enough to go.”
The Georgia-Georgia Tech game kicks off at 7:45 p.m. Saturday in Sanford Stadium.
Murray “wants to play, there’s no doubt about that,” Richt said.
The redshirt freshman quarterback suffered a bruised sternum and a bruised knee in the Bulldogs’ Nov. 13 loss at Auburn. He was held out of practice last week, when Georgia had an open date.
“[Murray] looked pretty good,” tailback Washaun Ealey said after Monday’s practice. “He came out a little edgy today, but he got all that worked out. He looked good toward the end of practice. You could tell he was real banged up, but he’s fighting through it. He’s a tough competitor. He knows we’re all counting on him to come through, so he’s out there trying to grind every day to get the job done.”
Ealey added: “I’m pretty sure he’ll play Saturday.”
– AJC correspondent Andy Johnston contributed to this blog.
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354 comments Add your comment
carmatter
November 23rd, 2010
5:42 pm
Marcus, good luck with the unemployment, hope you’re able to get a job and get back to work.
Coffee Bluff DAWG
November 23rd, 2010
7:01 pm
Marcus,
Glad to see that you’re gone – you are gone aren’t you? Congrats, to posting the most moronic blogs ever seen this yr on AJC.
What a tool you are, trying to rip a young man going out every week giving 100% and sometimes not getting a lot of support…
Marcus
November 23rd, 2010
7:26 pm
Some guys just pay attention to the wrong stuff. So what if he throws for 58 td’s but can’t get his team to .500? He needs to figure out what’s wrong, fix it, get better at timing, he does the wrong stuff at the right time, and the right stuff at the wrong time. He’s among the worst when it counts. Among the best when it doesn’t. Maybe he’s putting all his work on not throwing interceptions and reading defenses, and too little attention to EXECUTION, too much PLANNING, too little EXECUTION, maybe he needs to work harder at EXECUTION, being good against teams with winning records, on 3rd down, in the 4th quarter, and in the red zone, and winning more football games, you think?
Mark
November 26th, 2010
11:25 am
Marcus you sound like a man on unemployment. Angry by nature and miserable too. I suspect you also suffer penis envy. You suffered brain damage from an enema as a youth. Murray is growing into his ob role well. Dogs kill the bees.