Georgia at Alabama: Friday injury report revealed

The countdown is on before Georgia takes on Alabama in one of the most anticipated games of the young season. The health of the two teams is coming into a clearer picture after they revealed their Friday injury reports.

UGA listed three players as out earlier in the week, including offensive lineman Tate Ratledge. He underwent tightrope surgery on a high ankle sprain suffered against Kentucky and will not be able to go in Saturday’s primetime affair in Tuscaloosa. As for Alabama, the injury report was short throughout the week after three players suffered injuries against Wisconsin.

Georgia and Alabama will highlight the Week 5 slate of games with a 7:30 p.m. ET kickoff at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Here’s where the injury reports stand for both teams entering Saturday.

Full Alabama-Georgia Friday injury report

Alabama

• LB Qua Russaw – Probable
• RB Richard Young – Probable
• LB Jeremiah Alexander – Probable

Georgia

• RB Roderick Robinson II – Out
• WR London Humphreys – Out
• OL Tate Ratledge – Out
• WR Sacovie White – Out
• DL Mykel Williams – Questionable
• DL Jordan Hall – Questionable
• DL Warren Brinson – Probable

Georgia at Alabama is shaping up to be the biggest game of the year so far. The game will be under the lights with a 7:30 p.m. ET kickoff on ABC, and College GameDay will be in attendance as the fanfare continues to grow.

All eyes are on the quarterbacks, though, as Jalen Milroe and Carson Beck battle it out for the first time since last year’s SEC Championship. As for what the keys will be for both players, ESPN analyst Greg McElroy said it comes down to playing to their strengths.

“I think Carson Beck is so hard not to love,” McElroy said on Get Up. “I mean, the guy is just outrageously accurate. Totally understandable why you would look at him and say, ‘This guy is the most gifted thrower in college football at the moment.’ The thing is — recency bias now, maybe the worst game of his career, as far as seeing the field, came just a couple of weeks ago against Kentucky. Kentucky was able to confuse him, he left a lot of big plays on the field as a result, so I’m kind of looking for a bounce-back performance from him.

“I think they’re kind of right with Jalen Milroe. There’s something about his athleticism that makes him impossible to defend, and he’s a lot like Lamar Jackson was in college football. I mean, very, very similar. Extremely underrated as a passer, especially on the down-field throws. You just can’t tackle the guy. So, while it was maybe taboo awhile back to think, ‘Oh, Lamar is just going to go into the NFL and run like crazy against these NFL defenses,’ well, guess what? We’ve seen that happen now with Lamar, so it’s not surprising for me to see draft analysts start to come around on Jalen Milroe, because the question is, can you get him to the ground? The answer, for many, is no.”