Dominic Lovett considers what he brings to Georgia offense

As the Georgia football team gets set to attempt to defend its back-to-back national titles, it’ll do so relying on at least one key transfer on the offensive side of the football: Missouri wide receiver Dominic Lovett.

Lovett joined this offseason, one of the few players that Georgia has taken from the NCAA transfer portal since it went into effect.

But the Missouri standout isn’t expecting to have anything handed to him, nor does he believe he’s entitled to anything on a team that has already proven it’s quite capable of getting things done at an elite level. He’s ready to earn it.

“I feel like I’m just another weapon added to an offense that already had plenty of weapons, which is why I can say they welcomed me with open arms,” Lovett said. “They did it two years and I wasn’t here, so I was just another weapon that they added.”

And Lovett is a weapon indeed. The junior out of Missouri accounted for 56 catches, 846 yards and three touchdowns a year ago while playing for the Tigers.

He even chipped in quite a bit in a narrow loss to Georgia, hauling in six passes for 84 yards in a 26-22 defeat.

More than his production, though, Lovett is looking forward to adding to the kind of team chemistry that has made Georgia so hard to beat over the last few years. He recognizes the bond that players have and wants to do his part to ensure it’s as strong as possible.

“I can add like another brother, another teammate, all pushing in the same direction,” Lovett said. “I don’t really focus on individual goals. It’s a team sport. Without them other 10 guys on the field I couldn’t do what I do. Without the defense we couldn’t do what the offense do and vice versa. So I don’t really look like it as individual, as a team we take it game by game, practice by practice and keep pushing, keep striving.”

The talented receiver views his time at Missouri as some common ground with his new teammates. He joked that players have poked fun at him when replays of that Georgia-Missouri game pop up in the team facilities.

It’s a reminder that he has switched allegiances.

“I actually took that game as an honor, with them being like undefeated and them just winning the national championship,” he said. “I took that game as an honor. I went out there and had fun, played ball. We was up and they came back and they won. Honestly I look at that game as like a growing point, from being there and from being here as in Georgia is one of those teams that you’re going to have to play for four quarters. They’re never out of the fight. Of course we can run back to the Ohio State game; they’re never out of the fight.

“I took that game as an honor seeing how so many of those players entered the draft from offense and defense, so I felt like that was a cool team to play and I felt like we got after them pretty good and it was a good game. They came out on top. I had no bad blood. I just told them after the game it was a good game, maybe we’ll catch y’all next year. And I obviously ended up here next year.”