🏈 If you could take one player from any SEC team and put him in our starting lineup who would it be?

[psychojoe]

He had the same numbers as Shelley did last season; exactly the same.

The difference between the two is Hocker was 4-7 from 40-49 and 1-1 from out side the 50. Shelley was 2-6 outside the 40.

Cade had some bad numbers which makes the entire kicking game look bad. We ended up 4-15 outside the 40 with Foster's 2-9.

Hocker kicks off out of the end zone, and is otherwise as good as our returnees. That is what I was looking at.

 

[jdpas29]

that's him

You sure you aren't thinking about Bacarri Rambo? He's a safety for UGA and a good one. I thought about him, but have too much respect for how well Vinnie knows out defense.

 

[bamaraider]

I thought about Lutz a lot when I picked Gragg.

Their punter had about 2X as many yards as Cody did, but also had about 2X as many kicks. About a yard difference in average kick.

I forgot all about Lutz wow, yeah replace him with Brian Volger or Harrison Jones...Guess that contradicts my statement earlier

 

[TerryP]

Hocker kicks off out of the end zone, and is otherwise as good as our returnees. That is what I was looking at.

That thought crossed my mind...as in that was your line of reasoning for Hocker. But with the new rules, I assumed you were meaning FG's which is why I mentioned what I did.

This certainly is one of the things I'll be watching week one—number of kickoffs that purposely result in touchbacks vs number of kicks inside the 10.

 

[TerryP]

I forgot all about Lutz wow, yeah replace him with Brian Volger or Harrison Jones...Guess that contradicts my statement earlier

It's a toss-up between Gragg and Lutz. On one hand you have Lutz with 7 TD's on the year vs Gragg's 2. One the other hand you have almost twice and many carries and yards per game with Gragg compared to Lutz.

To me, based on what I saw of Gragg last year, I consider him to be a little more of a down field threat. We certainly can use the help in the plus area when it comes to TD's, but I have to weigh that against AJ's progressions/reads.

Can't go wrong either way but you certainly can go point for one against one another.

 

[UAgrad93]

Give me either TE. Need a little help in the experience area. Like Terry said, we couldn't go wrong with either one. I'll take the Barn's kickoff man. The guy boomed them thru the back of the end zone all season. With the rule change though, we may be losing footballs to the fans throughout the game! LOL Defensively, I wouldn't swap anyone. I know that there are some good ones out there, but we have guys though they haven't been "starters", they have been on the field for ALOT of snaps. I might take the Simon kid that was opposite the Honey Bonger. Again, Belue or Fulton might beat him out if he was on this team.