'I call him Captain America': Brock Bowers presence felt all around Georgia program
Georgia will enter its second spring scrimmage on Saturday looking for some answers. It would like to finalize the quarterback and left tackles battles and figure out which players are ready to be part of the game plan right away. But when it comes to Brock Bowers, the Bulldogs know exactly what they have.
He’s the team’s top offensive playmaker from the past two seasons. He’s the guy that they rely on when they need a big play in a big moment. Bowers is Georgia’s go-to guy and he has earned it — both with his play on the field and the effort he shows at every turn.
“His work ethic. Like, he comes in this building every single day probably maybe the first guy in here,” Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint said of Bowers. “Breakfast, workout in the morning. It’s like he is a work machine, and I feel like that’s what separated him from everybody else in the nation, especially in the tight end rooms and all the tight ends in the room because he’s done stacked his days up to get 1% better and better — like putting in work by himself. Does that make sense? Yeah, basically putting work in by himself. He’s just a work machine. He’s humble. He’s a work machine. He just does everything right. I call him Captain America.”
Bowers is unlike most tight ends. He may be unique from every player who has ever played the position. Tight ends have been known to stretch the field and Bowers does that with the best of them. When it comes to the screen game, we’ve seen players at that position have success, but few have been as productive as the Napa, California native.
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Then there’s how Georgia can get Bowers involved the easiest way possible — just handing it off. The Bulldogs have handed it to him 13 times over the past two seasons. The result is an impressive 165 yards and four touchdowns and it’s not just because he’s fast and powerful.
Those things help, to be sure, but Bowers, as tight ends coach Todd Hartley put it recently, is the ultimate competitor. He doesn’t like to be tackled. The first guy to make contact rarely gets him on the ground. He has the hands and separation ability of a receiver, the size and blocking ability of a tight end, and the skills of a running back with the ball in his hands. Bowers is the kind of player that doesn’t come around often.
“He’s extremely smart, and he’s very humble,” Offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said last week. “He reminds me a lot of a guy like Nick Chubb when I was here before that just went and worked every single day. He tried to get better no matter what he had done the day before, the game before, the year before. He was constantly trying to improve his craft. He’s a joy to coach, and I’m glad he’s a Georgia Bulldog.”
