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Georgia updates official injury status of Trevor Etienne, Christen Miller ahead SEC Championship game
ATHENS — With Georgia facing an SEC foe once again, the Bulldogs have put out an availability report entering this weekend’s game against Texas.
Of note, Trevor Etienne was listed as questionable. Etienne had 3 rushing touchdowns the first time these two teams met but the junior running back has not played since GEorgia’s loss to Ole Miss.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart gave an update on Etienne on Sunday.
“Trevor’s a ways away. I still don’t know because we haven’t even seen those guys,” Smart said on Sunday. “He wasn’t really close to playing last week. So I don’t know how that’s going to play out.”
As for the other running backs, Roderick Robinson was not listed. He made his return to the Georgia lineup against Georgia Tech, where he had 34 receiving yards and 3 rushing yards.
Branson Robinson was listed as quesitonable He has missed the last six games with an MCL injury he suffered in the win over Mississippi State.
Georgia listed Christen Miller as questionable as well. He suffered a shoulder injury in the win over UMass and did not play against Georgia Tech.
Without Miller, Georgia gave a season-worst 260 rushing yards against Georgia Tech.
“If you told me before the game we were going to have them in the second seven plus 16 times, I would have thought that we did something really, really well,” Smart said. “What we didn’t do was play real well on a couple of second and longs and a couple of the third downs, which really cost us. But the defensive line, we played more players there. We had to go into the well and play some younger guys, and they struck blocks and did some good things.”
Georgia will also be without Joseph Jonah-Ajonye, as he has been out since the Mississippi State game with a foot injury. Earnest Greene is not listed as he deals with a shoulder injury. He has missed the last three games for Georgia due to injury. Monroe Freeling has started in his place.
Georgia will have two key seniors it did not have the first time around, as Smael Mondon and Tate Ratledge will be good to go on Saturday. Mondon missed the Texas game with a foot injury, while Ratledge had an ankle injury.
“What I remember of watching them and still watching them right now is it’s a very physical front,” Ratledge said of Texas. “They’re very big. They’re really good with their hands. They’re really good at using their size. So just kind of hone in on that during practice and focusing on certain things to handle that.”
The SEC will publish an availability report on Thursday, Friday and then 90 minutes prior to kickoff. Saturday’s game against Texas is set for a 4 p.m. ET start on ABC. The game will be played in Atlanta.
Georgia football availability report entering Texas game
- Branson Robinson — knee — questionable
- Chauncey Bowens — foot — questionable
- Trevor Etienne — ribs — questionable
- Christen Miller — shoulder — questionable
- Joseph Jonah-Ajonye — foot — out
A Griffin, Georgia man is now under arrest, charged in connection with a cold case homicide investigation in New Jersey, prosecutors say.
It’s been nearly 37 years since 42-year-old Mauricio Cuadra was shot during an apparent home invasion; now, authorities say 62-year-old Joseph Quiros-Soto is charged with his murder.
Officials say on Aug. 9, 1989, the officers with the Bayonne Police Department responded to reports of a home invasion and shooting at an apartment on the 400 block of Avenue C. Inside the home, they found Cuadra suffering from a gunshot wound. Cuadra died shortly after.
The case remained a mystery until 2024, when Quiros-Soto confessed to the murder to police in Locust Grove, Georgia, saying that he had become a born-again Christian, NJ.com reports.
Police told the outlet that he gave the detectives details of the crime and allowed visiting Hudson County authorities to take a DNA sample, which matched a stain on the victim.
Authorities were eventually able to obtain a warrant for the Georgia man’s arrest. On May 27, 2026, deputies with the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office arrested Quiros-Soto at his home in Griffin, charging him with murder and murder during the commission of a burglary.
Quiros-Soto is being detained in Georgia, awaiting extradition to New Jersey.
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State baseball has made the super regionals in the NCAA Tournament and will face a team its already played four times.
The No. 14 national seed Bulldogs (43-17) are matched up with No. 3 Georgia (49-12). The best-of-three series will take place in Athens, Georgia, because Georgia is the higher seed.
The super regionals run from June 5-8, and the winner will make the College World Series.
MSU is 0-4 against Georgia this season, getting swept at Dudy Noble Field and then losing a fourth time in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals. Georgia won the SEC regular season and tournament championships.
Both teams made it through their regionals without a loss. Mississippi State blew out Louisiana 19-5 on May 31, while Georgia defeated Liberty.
MSU has played Georgia only once in postseason history, losing in the 1990 College World Series.
Mississippi State baseball history in super regionals
Mississippi State has played in 10 super regionals and won five of them. It has won three straight super regionals. MSU is 2-4 as the visiting team in super regionals.
New Mississippi State coach Brian O’Connor is 7-2 in super regionals.
NCAA baseball tournament schedule
- Super regionals: June 5-8
- College World Series: June 12-22
Sam Sklar is the Mississippi State beat reporter for The Clarion Ledger. Email him at ssklar@usatodayco.com and follow him on X @sklarsam_.
Georgia football landed a pair of commitments Sunday for its 2027 recruiting class.
Wide receiver Taurean Rawlins from Mount Vernon School in Atlanta posted on his X account on May 31 that he’s pledged to the Bulldogs.
Georgia also picked up a commitment from offensive tackle DJ Dotson from Hattiesburg, Miss., he posted on his Instagram account.
Both are rated 3-star prospects.
“I loved the support and love they showed towards me and my family,” Dotson said in a text message to the Athens Banner-Herald.
The 6-foot, 175-pound Rawlins is rated the No. 58 wide receiver in the 2027 class and the No. 478 overall prospect.
Rawlins had 67 catches for 1,395 yards and 17 touchdowns last season, according to MaxPreps.
Rawlins and Dotson give Georgia 10 commitments for this cycle.
Rawlins is the first wide receiver commitment. He also had offers from Ohio State, Florida and Michigan.
Georgia signed four wide receivers in its 2026 class: Craig Dandridge, Ryan Mosley, Dallas Dickerson and late addition Tre Shields.
Rawlins’ coach at Mount Vernon is former Georgia star wide receiver Terrence Edwards.
The 6-foot-7, 330-pound Dotson is rated as the nation’s No. 85 offensive tackle prospect and the No. 851 overall prospect.
He picked Georgia over Ole Miss, LSU and Georgia Tech, according to 247Sports.
Georgia also has offensive line commitments in its 2027 class from Kelsey Adams from Langston Hughes, Abram Eisenhower from Lowndes and Ty Johnson from Mount Pleasant, S.C.
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