Practice update: Keith Marshall, Richard Samuel, Shawn Williams likely out for G-Day
ATHENS – Georgia fans have lost one of their best reasons to come to the G-Day Game next Saturday.
Keith Marshall, the highly-touted tailback out of Raleigh, has been effectively scratched from the lineup due to a hamstring injury suffered a week ago. The 5-foot-11, 202-pound midyear enrollee was unable to practice again Saturday as the Bulldogs conducted their second scrimmage of spring practice. Coach Mark Richt said the window is almost shut on him being able to play in the annual spring game.
“I would say the chance of Keith going is probably not very good,” Richt said. “Right at this minute I’d say he’s doubtful.”
That’s a shame because all spring reports on Marshall had been very positive.
“You can tell why he was the No. 1 running back in the country,” senior receiver Tavarres King said. “That kid is impressive.”
Said running backs coach Bryan McClendon: “Just a super guy, just very conscientious. He’s smart. He’s a sharp kid who wants to to do well at everything. Obviously he has all the ability to match it. When you say the sky’s the limit for a person, I really think that phrase it made for him.”
It looks doubtful for senior tailback Richard Samuel (concussion) as well. That leaves Isaiah Crowell, Ken Malcome, Brandon Harton and Kyle Karempelis to tote the rock for G-Day.
Williams suffers knee injury
As if Georgia’s secondary situation was not precarious enough, senior strong safety Shawn Williams went down with a knee injury on Saturday.
Williams is the only one of Georgia’s four starting defensive backs that is not suspended for games at the beginning of the season. Free safety Bacarri Rambo (four games), cornerback Sanders Commings (two games) and cornerback Branden Smith (one game) all are expected to miss playing time as a result of internal discipline for team rules violations.
Fortunately for the Bulldogs, Richt does not believe Williams’ injury is serious.
“We think it’s a non-op situation,” Richt said Saturday morning. “He’s in there doing fine right now. I don’t know [about the spring game].”
Passing game tuning up
There was some rare good news for Georgia on the offensive side of the ball from Saturday’s scrimmage. For the first time all spring, the offense was able to effectively move the football against the Bulldogs’ stingy defense.
Quarterbacks Aaron Murray (8-for-13 for 125 yards, 1 TD, 0 INTs) and Hutson Mason (12-19-151-2-2) each was able to pass for more than 100 yards and four different receivers were able to haul in touchdown catches. Senior split end Marlon Brown led the way with 5 catches for 90 yards and a TD redshirt freshman Justin Scott-Wesley also had 5 receptions and a score.
“We threw it and caught it a lot better,” Richt said. “It started out not very good at all but as the scrimmage went on more plays were made at quarterback. You’re trying to make a judgment on whether a play might have been a sack or not and we err on the side of letting the ball get thrown. So there was probably a few of those big plays that might’ve been sacks in a real game.”
Corey Moore shines
On the defensive side of the ball, sophomore safety Corey Moore had a big day for the Bulldogs. The Griffin High graduate had a team-best 9 tackles and also had an interception.
He did good,” Richt said. “He’s coming. He’s a very aggressive football player when it comes to coming up to make a tackle. He’s a good athlete. He’s learning a lot and he’s going to get better. And he’s going to have to play for us; he’s going to have to function for us.”
Other defensive standouts included linebacker Ramik Wilson (7 tackles, sack, pass break-up), defensive end Ray Drew (5 tackles, sack), linebacker Chase Vasser (6 tackles) and noseguard Kwame Geathers (2 sacks).
The Bulldogs continue to struggle running the football against stout defensive front. Ken Malcome led all rushers with 29 yards on 5 carries, Isaiah Crowell had six for 23 and Brandon Harton had 6 for 11.
That’s the bad news. The good news is Richt said Georgia’s defensive line, led by John Jenkins, Abry Jones and Geathers, could be one of the best around.
Etc. . . .
Offensive guard Dallas Lee was back practicing after being sidelined for the last week with a concussion. Redshirt freshman offensive lineman Zach DeBell (ankle) was practicing in a regular jersey for the first time in a long while and redshirt freshman Xzavier Ward (knee) was working on the side in full pads and a green (non-contact) jersey. . . . Linebacker Amarlo Herrera (shoulder) remains in a green jersey.
Following are the “very unofficial official stats,” as Richt called them, from Saturday’s long scrimmage:
SCRIMMAGE STATS
Passing
- Murray 8-13-125-1 TD-0 int
- Mason 12-19-151-2-2
- Welch 5-10-57-1-0
- LeMay 3-6-28-0-1
Receiving
- M. Brown 5-90, TD
- Scott-Wesley 5-38, TD
- Bradberry 4-72, TD
- Erdman 3-23, TD
- Rome 2-50
Rushing
- Malcome 5-29
- Crowell 6-23
- Harton 6-11
Defense
- C. Moore 9 tackles, 1 INT
- R. Wilson 7 Ts, 1 sack, PBU
- Drew 5 Ts, 1 sack
- Geathers 2 sacks
- Vasser 6 Ts
- Norman 1 INT
- S. Williams 1 INT
Other
- Lindley 32-yard FG
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154 comments Add your comment
RHall55
April 7th, 2012
1:18 pm
Build some depth!!! Congrats on (3) commitments yesterday!!! CRG must be on the hot seat; to only get 19 commits last year??? UGA needs 30 this year; need to land some of the top prospects for this year!! Hire Charlie Flowers for Asst Recruiting Coordinator; then land Reuben Foster!! CRG, C’mon Man!!! “Win, Baby, Win”!!!
bsg3003
April 7th, 2012
1:19 pm
Sorry, I concern myself with what I know. I know for a fact that murray is one of the best QBs that the university of georgia has ever had, he’s broken records for touchdowns and yardage last year, the wins will come just you wait my friend. What do we know about lemay? What do we know about Mason for that matter? They’ve never gone up against sec competition. They’re both unproven QBs. I’d target go with the guy that’s one of the best QBs in the conference
DrFutBol
April 7th, 2012
1:24 pm
My, who in the world would want a QB with an 0-9 record vs. teams that finish top 25 to continue to start, a South Carolina fan, maybe Florida fan, perhaps? UGA fans want to win, 0-9 is not the kind of QB any UGA fans want.
Hutson Mason gives UGA the best chance to beat a ranked team. Again, it’s impossible to be worse than 0-9.
DrFutBol
April 7th, 2012
1:25 pm
what we know, is Murray has never beat a team that finished top 25. 0-9.
kingdaddy
April 7th, 2012
1:28 pm
woulda, coulda, shoulda, never did a guten-damen thing. Murray is All-SEC this year and the trolls know it, and don’t want to see him play. He is and will be UGAs starter unless he implodes, so get over your A.M. hate…
DrFutBol
April 7th, 2012
1:29 pm
0-9 vs. teams that finish top 25 isn’t imploding? Funny stuff.
tide roll
April 7th, 2012
1:30 pm
You have no offensive line. You have no offensive line depth. YET AGAIN.
kingdaddy
April 7th, 2012
1:57 pm
Doc and tide pole say the same unoriginal drivel everytime they open their mouths. Has nothing to do with logic, just half-truths and disinformation. Heres a question to both of you that I doubt you will answer. Since you seem to dislike everything Dawgs, why are you so concerned about what the Dogs do? The answer is excatly why both of you were, are and always will be useless trolls on these blogs. If you don’t like it leave it. We know you both have a miserible life because it shows in your constant whining. It’s really pitiful but nobody cares what you think anyway…
Terry
April 7th, 2012
2:08 pm
You Trolls must live a pitiful life, all you do is worry about the Georgia Bulldogs, stop living in your basement, and get outside for a while, you mite have a brighter our look on life, but probably not! Once a Loser! Always a Loser!!!! LOL, Idiots!!!!!
gDawg
April 7th, 2012
2:21 pm
Does anyone care to explain why Lemay is getting so little reps? He is supposedly the number 2 guy with Mason redshirting… this doesnt make sense.
bubba4dawgs
April 7th, 2012
2:34 pm
Never seen so much football intelligence coming from the “know it alls”! Excuse me while I go barf! The rest of the Bulldog Nation enjoy a wonderful Easter! GO DAWGS!!
ugalee
April 7th, 2012
2:41 pm
connor norman was the kid who if i remember right was very impressive last gday but was ignored during the year. Same story. The kid probably doesnt run a 4.4 sec 40 and you dont want to take valuable playing time from criminals that are trying to get to the NFL asap. Cmr, just keep yapping about the “georgia way” and then continue to ignore those that embody it
ugalee
April 7th, 2012
3:00 pm
Actually there is a good article by kinberly nash “the lady sportswriter” about connor and i stand corrected. According to the article, he runs a 4.39 40 dash. The article details about how connor has superior physical ability to many of the corners who were coming out of hs but was virtually ignored and had to go to presbyterian. This happens all the time to white running backs. Apparently, the criteria for selecting football players is having DISPARATE IMPACT on whites. I wonder where the justice dept investigation is
bsg3003
April 7th, 2012
3:27 pm
Yeah it’s a wonder to me too why lemay gets so few reps. I hope he has as much love for uga as shockley did because if not, we won’t see much more of Christian
DawgByte
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
DrFutBol -
You need to change your name to DrDumbFook!
duronimo
April 7th, 2012
4:22 pm
Strong support for Murray. I’m a bit surprised. He’s short, plays well against weak opponents but makes critical mistakes in big games when the pressure comes. It’s a trend, not an aberration. If you didn’t notice that’s ok. Those that have? I guess we’re all trolls. It’s too funny a word to be a serious put down. Even the word “twit’ would have more impact.
uga
April 7th, 2012
4:34 pm
dnt let the fact that mason threw 3 td’s on a 2nd string defense fool you. Murray, 1 TD or not, had 35 tds last year to 14 ints which about 6 of them were just good plays by opposing defenses. Mason, talented, but i am sure a coach like CMR would’ve had him starting over murray if it were just about spring stats. these are some situational passes, not like a real game. so keep trolling and writing your mess becuz murray is a pre-season heisman hopeful.
uga
April 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
losing a game takes more than 1 QB. murray isn’t 0-9 vs ranked opponets, uga is. but they beat a 23rd ranked Auburn last year, and no one knew Florida was going to succ the last 5 -6 games of the season. Special teams and and other things go into losing a game. so like my boy before me said, get out of the basement,off the computer, stop watching cinemax, and get a life, instead of worrying about college kids, myself being a college student
uga
April 7th, 2012
4:41 pm
i didnt know a little weed makes you a criminal, smh
WnE
April 7th, 2012
4:42 pm
Is Chris Conley hurt?
Any update on Mitchell at CB/DB from this last scrimmage?
I haven’t see any stats from him in the last 2 scrimmages.
I like to keep up with what the Metro Atl. Area players are doing, especially the ones that also had offers from GT and had the Academics for GT.
Good to Scott-Wesley play well again, that RS yr seemed to help him out a lot.
CPJ tried to Recruit him to GT with a spiel that went something like this:
“If you sign with GT to play A-Back I promise to throw the ball more after you sign”
Scott-Wesley’s reply:
“It looks to me that position is more like RB than it is WR, I think I’ll look elsewhere”
Well, here’s to hoping that BOTH TEAMS are 11-0 when the last Saturday in November rolls around this year.
Bulldog on the Bayou
April 7th, 2012
4:56 pm
@DrFutBoil – when you are digging a hole the way you are, throw the shovel down and run away – real fast!
VA dog
April 7th, 2012
5:23 pm
Murray is the stater, has always been the stater and has the regular season games to prove he’s deserving of being the starter. With that said he’s only a hit from being out for the season. Two quarterbacks will be needed so Hutson Mason’s progress should be a point of jubilation and not controversy. Not many players don’t want to start and if Mason believes starting at Georgia isn’t possible then he has too make the decision to stay or leave. Players do it all the time when they evaluate their playing status in their program. DJ Shockely had to make a similar decision.
TY
April 7th, 2012
5:41 pm
As long as there are 21 other players plus kickers and special teams involved in Football….Murray did not lose all those games to top teams by himself….There is this thing called team that you Murray bashers are forgetting….Get over it you may as well blame it on the center…. Jones had the same record since Murray has been the starter…
Dawg Haus
April 7th, 2012
6:33 pm
Scary news about Shawn Williams. I hope it’s nothing serious.
esaun
April 7th, 2012
7:02 pm
Marshall shows all the dummy fans questioning Crowell’s toughness what a SEC defense will do to a freshman running back; break em up. Only way a freshman back makes it is if he has that H Walker body.
MaconDawg
April 7th, 2012
7:19 pm
excited about Corey Moore and Connor Norman…. The kid Norman made plays last year and was a heck of of a special teams player… As for Moore the US Army game showed me this kid was going to be very good, just needed an opportunity totally ready for the season GO DAWGS!!!!
Valdosta Cat
April 7th, 2012
7:41 pm
Thanks for the info ugalee. Let’s continue to show support for Conner Norman. Hopefully more folks will jump on this bandwagon.
Dawg Haus
April 7th, 2012
8:52 pm
Can’t argue with that, MaconDawg. I can’t wait to see Moore and Norman get in there.
bitter dope heads
April 7th, 2012
9:28 pm
?——am I to believe any of our running backs——past the latest peeeee test.
———————-we are talking about bong boy —crow-face
—————————SURE—————–hahahahahah—–
Year of the DAWG
April 7th, 2012
9:46 pm
With a football name like Hutson Mason you got to give the guy a shot. !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac(Dawg for life/Richt fan for life)
April 7th, 2012
9:53 pm
@ Tarlie Chrippi:
You are fighting a losing battle with the negative nutcases like “DrFutBol”. He and his ilk are going to bash Murray regardless.
I waited and waited but not one of them mentioned that Murray had ZERO interceptions while Mason had two!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac(Dawg for life/Richt fan for life)
April 7th, 2012
10:05 pm
@ bsg3003:
You are right on the money but there are too many idiots out there who are braindead or think they know more SEC football than CMR and staff.
Yes sirree!!! Old Richt & associates only play their favorites never mind their jobs are on the line. By the way, the negative nutcases never mentioned that Mason had TWO interceptions while Murray had ZERO.
One of the inbreds, UGA Lee, did manage to slip in the fact that Murray had “no pick 6’s”.
Brainiac(Dawg for life/Richt fan for life)
April 7th, 2012
10:07 pm
@ Bubba4dawgs:
You said it best Bro!!!!!!!!!!
Bubba4dawgs = DGD
Brainiac(Dawg for life/Richt fan for life)
April 7th, 2012
10:10 pm
@ Ty:
Great post Ty:
Ty = DGD
Maxx4955
April 7th, 2012
10:41 pm
Good news for Corey Moore. This kid works hard everyday to improve…he just needed the opportunity. He is probably one of the hardest hitting DBs for the Dawgs and a damn good coverage guy. Solid young man all-around. Go Dawgs.
kingdaddy
April 7th, 2012
11:10 pm
Are the twits gone yet? Lol….. Now thats an impact word. You know what? I think I’ll stick with troll, twit sounds like a sissy way to say troll. If you don’t like it, don’t be twitting, I mean trolling…
kingdaddy
April 7th, 2012
11:18 pm
Conner Norman, now that’s a football name. He’s a DGD too. You’ve got to love this kids dedication to be a Doggie. He really wants it bad, I say let him play. Wouldn’t it be nice if he got his chance to play and the other nim-rods couldn’t get their starter jobs back. I hope Conner gets a solid chance…
kingdaddy
April 7th, 2012
11:23 pm
Maxx, you’re right Moore does like-a da pop…
Vampire Bill
April 7th, 2012
11:31 pm
Murray could have 10 ints and 10 fumbles and he’d still be the starter.
Clarke County College for Girls and Effeminate Boys
April 7th, 2012
11:59 pm
go dawgs!!! they are all so cute!
charles s.
April 8th, 2012
12:02 am
mason’s an INT machine. anyone watch the spring game last year? Should have been picked off 4 times.
Bean Counter
April 8th, 2012
12:26 am
DrFutBol failed his ID 10T test. Mason is being redshirted this year so that if Murray leaves earily we will have two years for Mason to quarterback at UGA. If some of these ID 10T failures on here are such good coaches why aren’t they the ones making two to three million dollars a year, Arkansas will be looking for one soon?
Preston
April 8th, 2012
4:05 am
Just FYI everyone crying about how much playing time Hutson’s getting……he’s redshirting this season to allow Murray to get out of his way so you need to get behing Murray and accept him! The guy didn’t get 50+ scholarship offers for nothing. Murray will have his best year this season! And HM will start when AM leaves for the NFL.
lazlodawg
April 8th, 2012
8:15 am
The lack of any ability to run the ball against a good defense is troubling (again). This can be attributed to poor OL play (again). This offense does not work without a running threat.
moderena
April 8th, 2012
8:30 am
I can not understand why everyone is so high on Murray. He single handedly lost the bowl game last year. Very poor decision making. I am for giving however is playing best the chance to play.
bitter dope heads
April 8th, 2012
8:43 am
dont mess with the “king”——or bitter——bamma trolls——–happy easter————T-bags
bitter dope heads
April 8th, 2012
8:45 am
There’s a NEW WORLD ORDER—–IN ATHENS———–no dope—eees allowed
Joey
April 8th, 2012
8:53 am
I never “bash” Murray, in fact I like his toughness, and apparently Mason can’t beat him out of the top spot.
But it’s just denying the truth not to admit he hasn’t played well in big games in his first two seasons and is 0-2 in his two bowl games, both in which UGA was the favorite.
While Murray certainly is not the only reason for this, he has made a bunch of turnovers in those games, many for TDs for the opponent.
I think Bobo/Richt don’t trust Murray completely and that’s why they go conservative when we get a lead – even a small one. Maybe he cleans up that stuff this season, and Bobo opens up the offense more.
UGADawg91
April 8th, 2012
9:01 am
Why does everyone assume Mason will start once Murray leaves. By redshirting, that puts a year between him and Murray. But now he’s in the same class as LeMay. It’s possible that Mason may not ever be a starter at UGA even after taking a redshirt year.
Black Mountain NC Bulldog
April 8th, 2012
9:26 am
Murray will start and if Bobo and Richt allow him to roll outside the pocket. He will do great. Murray does need to cut down, on his turnovers next season. Mason is a great option if Murray goes down!!
The D front 7 will carry us until we get players back from suspension and the O line grows, gets tougher, and jells.
I am optimistic, for the 2012 season!