The excitement of the 2020 preseason is beginning to increase and that means the watching charts and the All-Conference and All American groups will be released. Pro Football Focus recently launched its 2020 pre-season All-American groups and Georgia had six players on the list with a second-team selection, 3 third-team options and two honorable mention options.
Graduate Jamie Newman’s move as a third-team variety to quarterback.
Newman took the Demon Deacons to an 8-5 record in 2019, their first and only full-time opener. Finished 220 of 361 passes (60.9%) for 2,868 yards, 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. He also did a lot of damage on the court, accumulating 574 yards and six touchdowns on 180 carries and that includes catches. He woke up Forest’s thirteen games in 2019. As a runner, Newman has been used in many designed racing games. Totaled 574 yards on the floor and only 164 of the yards on the floor were pushed. This year he totaled 27 forced failed tackles and changed 40 first attempts as a runner, ranking 10th in the quarter-finals at Power Five level.
Sophomore George Pickens is an open receiver selection of the third team.
Pickens played all 14 games of the 2019 season, making two starts and completing with 49 receptions for 727 yards and 8 touchdowns, all team highs and more yards at reception than any UGA catcher since Malcolm Mitchell in 2015. In Sugar’s 26-14 with The Bowl’s victory over No. 7 Baylor, Pickens took his game to another level, making 12 receptions for 175 yards and a touchdown, which earned him the honors of Bowl Sugar’s Most Valuable Player after tying a show record with 12 catches in one game. He had a couple of suspensions in the first half at the end of the season, but if he can put them on and improve, he could succeed at the 1,000-yard mark in 2020. Lawrence Cager is now a graduate and his sophomore year. His classmate, Dominick Blaylock, is returning from a primary knee injury, Pickens will be asked from the start to be the undisputed goal of number one passes for anyone aligned with the Georgia quarterback this season.
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Senior Ben Cleveland won the third team’s honors in the offensive guard.
Cleveland brings 16 games of initial fun to the right guard and has started the last five games of the 2017 season, adding the SEC Championship, rose bowl and national championship. He started the 2018 season as a starter and held the place for four games before a damaged bone in his left leg knocked him unconscious or limited him for the rest of the season. Cleveland is expected to return for its final eligibility season after not having the Sugar Bowl due to educational issues. He played thirteen games in 2019, all on guard, starting games opposed to Arkansas State, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Kentucky, Texas A-M, Georgia Tech and LSU. He named the SEC’s offensive coach of the week for his efforts against Missouri.
Senior Malik Herring is an honorable mention in the position of defender on board.
Herring emerged as Georgia’s main contributor on the defensive line as a sophomore in 2018, climbing alongside then-junior David Marshall hampered by injuries. After betting on all 15 rookie games in 2017 and making seven tackles, Herring would play all 14 games in 2018, doing 23 tackles, 3.5 missed tackles and assisting in a couple of catches. Herring made his first career start opposite Georgia Tech in 2018, making five tackles, a personal record. One of his tackles for defeat that season, as opposed to Florida, resulted in a getaway.
The 2019 season saw Herring as a reliable starter for Georgia, betting on 12 out of 14 games and doing 26 tackles. The 6-foot-3-inch, 280-pound lineman also endured 18 quarterback pressures, which was smart for Georgia’s third-best defense. Herring would fit into the top of his career with five tackles in the 26-14 win over Baylor at the 2020 Allstate Sugar Bowl, as well as a hit on the line.
Herring was named through Georgia as co-winner of the Most Improved Defensive Player Award at the team’s postseason awards gala. He is part of a fourth-year player organization, with deep Richard LeCounte, who was 35-7 in Georgia, with at least 11 wins each season, three consecutive SEC Eastern Division titles, an SEC championship, two for Sugar. Bowl and a Rose Bowl memorial that culminated in a 54-48 double win in overtime that gave the show its first participation in the national school football championship.
Redshirt’s corner sophomore Eric Stokes also chose an honorable mention.
After making red jerseys in 2017, Stokes quietly came into force at the time of the 2018 season as a rookie, beating Tyson Campbell in the starting line-up for the last four games and making 20 tackles with nine pass breaks, the team’s time. Best. He continued his ascent in 2019. Selection of the Associated Press All-SEC team of the moment and variety of the Pro Football Focus All-SEC team of the moment in 2019, Stokes played all 14 games for Georgia, starting at 13, and made 38 tackles, 30 solo saves, a nine-pass break, the team’s highest, and a catch and a forced loose ball, the latter of which resulted in a defensive landing by the Dawgs in the win over Tennessee.
Finally, junior Jake Camarda wins the team’s honors from the bettor.
After winning the starting position at pre-season camp as a rookie, Camarda struggled, but showed flashes of brilliance. Camarda averaged 42.6 yards consistent with clearing in her first year with three clearings of more than 60 yards and 10 clearings or simply got stuck within the 20-yard line. Camarda took a step forward particularly in her season at the moment, completing sixth in the country and fourth in the SEC on average clearing with 46.84 yards consistent with kick. Helping the Bulldogs move from the 70th national clearing place to 8th in 2019, Camarda was named co-winner of the top forward special group player at the Georgia postseason awards gala. Another sign of improvement came here statistically, as Camarda had 25 clearings within the 20-yard line.
In a decisive SEC East victory over Auburn, the Norcross venue Georgia kicked 11 times for an average of 50.7 yards consistent with the kick, which earned him the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week award. His 67-yard career lost at Tiger’s 2-yard line.
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