Georgia QB-turned-WR Logan Gray to transfer
Georgia quarterback-turned-wide receiver Logan Gray plans to transfer to another school for his final season of football eligibility after graduating from UGA in May.
According to UGA, Gray told coach Mark Richt that he wants to play at an undetermined school closer to his Columbia, Mo., home while pursuing a Master’s degree. He will complete his bachelor’s degree in speech communication at Georgia this semester.
Gray’s departure means Georgia will head toward the 2011 season without three wide receivers from last season’s team. A.J. Green left school early to enter the NFL draft, and Kris Durham completed his eligibility.
After redshirting in 2007 and serving as a backup quarterback in 2008 and 2009, Gray competed for Georgia’s starting quarterback job in spring practice last year. He was moved to receiver after Aaron Murray won the No. 1 quarterback job.
Gray considered transferring before the 2010 season but opted to remain at UGA. He played in all 13 games last season, starting none and catching nine passes for 105 yards and one touchdown.
Gray said in a statement Tuesday that he hopes to play his final season “where my family can attend all of my games.” He thanked Richt “for giving me the opportunity to be a Bulldog the last four years and [for] sticking beside me throughout the whole experience.”
“I would also like to thank my teammates for everything,” Gray said. “They are like another family to me, and I know I will be close to several of them for the rest of my life.”
Richt wished Gray well, saying in a statement: “I want to express sincere appreciation to Logan for his many contributions to our program the last four years. He’s been an asset to our team and program as both a player and student, and we wish him nothing but the very best.”
Coming out of high school, Gray was ranked the nation’s No. 7 quarterback prospect by ESPN. As a quarterback at Georgia, he completed five of 12 passes for 31 yards and two interceptions — all in 2009.
Under NCAA rules, a football player who transfers to pursue graduate studies for academic reasons can be eligible to play immediately at his new school, rather than having to sit out a year as is ordinarily required.
Rebuilding the receiver rotation will be a high priority for Georgia before next season. The Bulldogs’ top returning receiver is Tavarres King, who started five games and caught 27 passes for 504 yards and three touchdowns last season.
The Bulldogs return three other wide receivers with limited college experience –- Marlon Brown, Israel Troupe and Rantavious Wooten –- and one who redshirted as a freshman last season, Michael Bennett. In addition, Chris Conley — a 2011 recruit – enrolled this semester and will participate in spring practice. The Bulldogs are expected to sign several receivers to letters of intent this week.
Georgia also expects major pass-catching contributions from a deep group of tight ends, including Orson Charles and Aron White.
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271 comments Add your comment
CPJ Fan
February 1st, 2011
4:25 pm
Dear Apples II Oranges,
More Jackets will be in the Super Bowl this weekend than Mutts. You might benefit from this: http://www.wikihow.com/Think-Before-Speaking
Hector
February 1st, 2011
4:26 pm
Gray just didn’t seem to fit with the thUGAS!!!!
kb
February 1st, 2011
4:29 pm
CPJ fan 43 Dawgs in NFL 28 Nats.CPJ has only recruited 2 players that ever made it to NFL.
Mike
February 1st, 2011
4:29 pm
joe cox should have done the same thing last year. good luck to logan
SCDawgFan
February 1st, 2011
4:29 pm
Best of luck Logan. Thanks for those sure handed catches on punt returns. Good luck !!!
"The Rock"
February 1st, 2011
4:32 pm
“Know Your Role”
AFDawg
February 1st, 2011
4:33 pm
Army Vet, I think you’re experiencing PTSD — lighten up and have a little fun.
PMDawg
February 1st, 2011
4:34 pm
Gee, another scholarship just open up?
AFDawg
February 1st, 2011
4:36 pm
CPJ Fan, Has your school had at least one player from your school play in the Super Bowl for the last decade like UGA? I didn’t think so. Also, how many Super Bowl MVPs have come out of Tech?
AFDawg
February 1st, 2011
4:38 pm
beebee from tech, That doesn’t qualify as an excuse because ya’ll play in the ACC. Also, what was your excuse against Kansas?
Apples II Oranges
February 1st, 2011
4:43 pm
CPJFAN,
Its called comedic timing. See your post was at 4:14 then mine was right after yours. See thats the great thing of having a personality and wit. Lighten up, its only a blog.
GA DAWG
February 1st, 2011
4:44 pm
That takes one bad decision out of Bobo’s hands.
reebok
February 1st, 2011
4:47 pm
tech fan here, i kind of feel for logan gray, seems like a really good player who just wound up in a good program at a bad time
reebok
February 1st, 2011
4:51 pm
BTW, who is the #2 QB for the Dogs behind Murray now? Murray’s not that big a guy, he’s liable to miss some time.
dawg from a distance
February 1st, 2011
4:52 pm
Best wishes for Logan as he transitions. Could have really used him more this year but desire to be close to family can’t be complained about. Go DAWGS!
jerry
February 1st, 2011
4:56 pm
It wouldn’t bother me if they were all like Logan. In all of football.
Opie
February 1st, 2011
4:58 pm
Pa Pa, Logan took his football and went home, now we can’t play football at the school anymore!
NOTSO FAST
February 1st, 2011
5:04 pm
You just call it class. You have wish nothing but good thing s for this young man,
don medeiros
February 1st, 2011
5:08 pm
Enter your comments here
don medeiros
February 1st, 2011
5:09 pm
he was the 7th ranked QB in the country coming out of HS? Says something about those people who put stars next to prspects’ names.
oakwwod dawg
February 1st, 2011
5:14 pm
smart kid, get off the ship before it goes down next year. doesn’t matter who we get to sign were still going to suck. florida, auburn, LSU, bama even mississippi state will be better than us, follow dawg fans just accept it and move on.
Bill Goldberg
February 1st, 2011
5:22 pm
Hey Oakwood,
Supports like you, we don’t need! Take Dawg off of your name! It will take 2 years, give them a chance, if you don’t want too’ then go support somebody else!
Delbert D.
February 1st, 2011
5:22 pm
Gray was a 4-star, Rivals Dual-Threat in the 2007 class. A lot of familiar names in that particular group:
#1 Tyrod Taylor
#2 Cameron Newton
#4 Stephen Garcia
#8 Kodi Burns
#9 Josh Nesbitt
#10 Logan Gray
The 4-stars that didn’t really pan out are Korn, Nichol, Chris Forcier
The Pro-Style QBs from 2007:
#1 Jimmy Claussen
#2 Ryan Mallett
#3 John Brantley
#6 Pat Bostick
#7 Jarrett Lee
#9 Steven Threet
Paulus, Lalich, Marve and Coleman were the others.
KaliDogg
February 1st, 2011
5:29 pm
Never ceases to amaze me, the level of football expertise (sarcasm intentional) on these blogs. Best athlete on the UGA football team (not according to me, according to coaches who actually coach these players, and the players who played with him).
Logan Gray was never handled properly and it started with the Matt Stafford obsession. Followed by the A.J. Green obsession (only occasionally punctured by Kris Durham making another impossible catch).
Logan Gray threw 12 passes for UGA. Want to take the top 25 Hall-Of-Fame quarterbacks and track their first 12 passes in college? You really think it’s that easy?
One comment I love. He threw a pick against UF and the commenter flushed him. Guy threw an interception. Obviously sucks as a football player. All the work and history of play since he was 6 years old out the window because he threw an interception against Florida. Gee, UGA wouldn’t have any quarterbacks left if that was the test of greatness.
Guy threw an interception. Wow. Take him out and shoot him.
I don’t know so I won’t pontificate on the topic but I suspect that Logan Gray is an exceptional athlete who fell prey to a disease too many players at UGA are contracting lately. It’s called “Non-Coached-Itis” — which I just made up, but you get the idea.
I choose to believe that, from what I’ve seen of his play and from the insights of people who have played with him.
Of course, he could just be a bum taking up a scholarship slot, as many here suggest.
Perfect vision must be wonderful.
Al
February 1st, 2011
5:38 pm
This means that an additional scholarship is opened up for another recruit. I wonder if this is a GREAT sign on these last few commits to the dream team! Best of wishes Logan!
tc
February 1st, 2011
5:43 pm
When has CMR and Bobo told the QB to throw the ball to a TE? Answer NEVER! Idiots!!
Doug
February 1st, 2011
5:52 pm
Hey Cville if you are going to call someone else , “stupid,” the correct grammar is, “you’re stupid.”
If you had taken 8th grade English you would have learned that ,”your,” is a possessive pronoun. The correct word is, “you’re,” which is a contraction of,” you are.”
doggie
February 1st, 2011
5:53 pm
Yo Timbo! people make fun of the north too. Trust me. My in-laws are from NJ and they are nothing but northern rednecks with different accents. Fughettaboudit! Talk to yous lata. Ha!
DawgK
February 1st, 2011
5:58 pm
maybe he can transfer to ga tech—they are desperate for anyone to play QB. The current guy is a dud.
DDT
February 1st, 2011
6:08 pm
Who Cares.
excessive celebration
February 1st, 2011
6:13 pm
i dont know if yall noticed it but teams loaded up the box and dared stafford to beat them. guess what he couldnt do it. stafford has all of the skills but he wasnt a gamer. i think this guy was a gamer but didnt have the arm. if we were runnung a wing-t like uf he would have fit in perfect. anyway best of luck.
Bib Bad Bob
February 1st, 2011
6:19 pm
Logan, I wish you the best. Thank you for your contributions to the Georgia football team. You are a CLASS ACT.
UGA DAWG FAN
February 1st, 2011
6:31 pm
Aww gonna miss fair catch Logan. No one could fair catch a kick better than him. HA.
AMSTERDAM SAM
February 1st, 2011
6:35 pm
I am a lifelong dawg fan and almnus, but I wonder if he did this to free up a scholarship. If so – thank you for bighting the bullet, Logan – you are a true dawg. One more scholarship will not hurt, either. Go dawgs!
Looking To The Future
February 1st, 2011
6:38 pm
great person prob would have done the most damage of his career in 2011 but oh well. does anyone that subscribes to Dawgs247 know who the new offer UGA just put out??
Looking To The Future
February 1st, 2011
6:42 pm
btw my last comment wasnt a pun on logans transfer, i read on twitter uga just offered someone but it was a subscription only
mcdaviddawg
February 1st, 2011
6:52 pm
a prime example of Richt’s in ability to use the talent he recruits. I don’t know why all this talent this year wants to play for him, but at least there will be a lot of talent for the new coach.
Richie_Rich86
February 1st, 2011
7:01 pm
Goodluck Logan in your future man. Thanks for staying this past season to give us some QB depth. GATA whereever you end up next fall and good luck to a successful business career. Go Dawgs!
kb
February 1st, 2011
7:45 pm
LOL the Matt Stafford obsession, You mean the 2009 NFL #1 overall pick, Logan Knew what he was up against at Ga. Wish he would’ve stayed , but I understand him wanting to be closer to home.
mountain dawg
February 1st, 2011
7:53 pm
logan, you’re a class act and are a bulldog through and through. best of luck to you pursuing your education and enjoying your final season of college ball.
All Da Way Turnt up !
February 1st, 2011
7:54 pm
Logan was praddy goot at Dancin on dem sidelines……
Dawg89
February 1st, 2011
8:26 pm
Good Luck to Logan Gray. A lot of loosers on this blog should read MoDawg’s post at 12:53 pm (first page).
woebegong
February 1st, 2011
8:45 pm
Good luck to the young man. I am sure he realized he was not going to ba NFL material after his first year at UGA, so he did the right thing and got a good education. Now he wants to finish out his college football closer to home, and get his masters degree, and let his family see him play. Anybody who can’t see that this young man will have a bright future, is missing out on something. Possibly brains, but the way some folks make comments on these blogs, that should be a given.
Big Dawg
February 1st, 2011
8:47 pm
UGA just lost the best fair catcher in NCAA history. Need to start recruiting a replacement in next year class.
shankit
February 1st, 2011
8:55 pm
Birmingham News
Cam Newton will not be eligible for rookie of the year
in the NFL, cause it will be his second season as a
paid professional athlete.
Saban is 2-2 against Auburn last 4 years.
Georgia is 4-1 against Auburn last 5 years.
Bama has 15 of 17 sports programs on probation.
RealDawg
February 1st, 2011
8:59 pm
You hate to see it. Just like Blake Barnes from 7 or so years ago. Highly touted out of high school but just didn’t get the opportunity on the big stage. You wish them all well and hope for the best.
joey
February 1st, 2011
9:43 pm
Thanks Logan for your loyalty and for choosing UGA. Best of luck to you in your future.DGD GO DAWGS!!!!
CLS Dawg
February 1st, 2011
9:50 pm
UGA just offered a linebacker currently commited to tech, anyone know who it is?
SouthGA Dawg
February 1st, 2011
10:02 pm
DGD, Always loved to watch him play. This kid is really good but never got the right chance.DGD. Good luck, you will always be a DAWG.
Anonymous 'Cos
February 1st, 2011
10:03 pm
@ CLS Dawg,
I believe the linebacker you are referring to is Tre Jackson. He was committed to Tech until CPJ pulled his scholarship last week after he visited FSU. Who knows what’s going on? Let’s do this! Go Dawgs…