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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
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Kirk Fordice-like Rick Jackson is sounding a whole lot like Daniel Kirkwood Fordice as he tries to be elected Georgia’s next governor.
Fordice came out of nowhere — actually, Vicksburg is somewhere but you know what I mean — in 1991 to become a two-term Mississippi governor.
He had money but nothing like Jackson, a billionaire businessman who’s also trying to emerge from nowhere politically to win Georgia’s top office.
“The establishment hated Trump, because they couldn’t control him. They are going to hate me,” Jackson says in an ad for Georgia’s Republican Primary on May 19, sounding like one of my favorite Mississippi governors — Fordice, because of his unpredictable personality (he could vilify or charm you, all in one sentence), not his politics. He died in 2004 of cancer.
I stood by a cafe entrance one morning, waiting to cover a Fordice speech. When he appeared, I stuck out my hand to shake his. “I’m not shaking your damn hand. You’re part of the problem down there (referring to the newspaper),” he told me, smiling and moving on.
Jackson rose to become one of economic giant-Georgia’s wealthiest people. He came from Atlanta’s rough midtown area, ending up in the foster care system. He left college due to poor financial circumstances.
The 71-year-old Jackson wormed his way into the dynamic city’s business scene in the late 1970s, mostly of the healthcare variety with mixed success before starting a workforce staffing and services company and later an antibiotics manufacturing plant. He turned those businesses into billion-dollar enterprises.
“It’s God’s money,” he said in rural Blakely, and he’s been charitable with it.
Jackson doesn’t try to hide his vast wealth. His family lives in a 48,000-square-foot mansion at Cumming, a place of nearly 100,000 people near Atlanta in Forsyth County, which once promoted its almost all-white population as a virtue.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Bill Torpy recently wrote that Jackson will spend a ton of his own money in seeking another mansion, the one occupied by Georgia’s governor. Torpy noted that present Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was once heavily favored to win the primary race, but he’s fallen behind Jackson’s bold money bid.
“The one-time front-runner in the Republican primary (Jones) has been relegated to No. 2, the result of a $100 million Mack truck running him over.
Rick Jackson, a billionaire healthcare tycoon, a man with a sly smile and reptilian gaze, is the guy driving that truck,” Torpy wrote.
The GOP field includes Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, who spurned Trump’s demand to find 11,780 votes that would’ve allowed him to win Georgia in 2020.
Fordice was effective with some bombastic rhetoric during his run for governor, but I don’t remember it reaching the histrionic level employed by Jackson. In a major ad blitz, often referencing (Georgia college student) Laken Riley’s murderer, Jackson promises that unauthorized immigrants committing violent crimes will be “deported or departed … any questions?”
In another ad, Jackson growled, “Like President Trump, I don’t owe anybody anything, and like you, I’m sick of career politicians.”
Fordice spent only $1 million to get himself elected Mississippi’s governor. He somewhat sneaked up on the establishment, riding no escalator to the first floor of his Vicksburg concrete river mats-contracting office to declare his intentions. Who could ever forget his announcement seeking the governorship that ran on page 5 of the Clarion Ledger?
Recent polling ahead of Georgia’s May primaries for governor shows the eventual Republican nominee faces a strong Democrat in the November general election, most likely former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. That’ll require another whole pot of money.
— Mac Gordon, a native of McComb, is a retired Mississippi newspaperman. He can be reached at macmarygordon@gmail.com.
Gulfstream recently announced a $5 million investment in Georgia education, welcoming students and leaders to its Savannah headquarters.
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