Former Georgia tight end shares advice for Bennett, Bowers and the Bulldogs
Kirby Smart took his Georgia team on the road Saturday to come away with a 48-7 win over South Carolina, and on Sunday, the TV pundits are heaping praise on the Bulldogs. Just two weeks after giving Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett his helmet sticker on ESPN’s College Football Final, Jesse Palmer did the same thing this week for tight end Brock Bowers. But former Georgia tight end Benjamin Watson shared some advice for Bowers and his alma mater on SEC Network, wanting the Dawgs to keep their head down.
“Clear No. 1 team,” Watson said on SEC Network’s SEC Football Final wrap up show. “There are always things but I don’t have them. What I do have is, they need to ignore the noise. Everybody’s going to talk about Georgia as they should, the No. 1 team in the country. They’re playing good defense. They’ve got young players stepping up on defense, making great plays. Today, Brock Bowers got involved. I think the offense is far and away in a better place than it was last year. Spreading the ball around, Stetson Bennett is doing a great job. There’s going to be a lot of noise. Ignore the noise. Keep going and doing the things that you’re doing. Put your head down and do the things that got you there.”
Bowers finished the day with a trio of touchdowns, taking a reverse in for the first score of the game before adding two receiving touchdowns later in the game. The first of those he went up and over the South Carolina defender to grab the ball out of the air and managed to get his feet in bounds along the sideline of the end zone. Then, on the second, he outran Gamecock defenders for a 78-yard score. Bowers ended up with five catches for 121 yards including the two touchdowns as well as the one rushing score.
“Brock was everywhere,” the ESPN’s College Football Final crew of Matt Barrie, Joey Galloway and Jesse Palmer added in their wrap up show. “He surprises you with his athleticism. He’s 6-(foot)-4, 230 (pounds) but moves like a running back. What other team could run a reverse with a tight end? You can also line him up as a wide receiver and just let him go deep on a DB, high point the football. This guy’s been doing it, did it all last year as a true freshman. This kid’s got some juice man.”
While Watson doesn’t want Georgia players to be listening to all the praise being put on them, he added that he definitely wants the PR department to.
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“The second thing I would say is to the PR department,” Watson said. “While I want the players to ignore the noise, the PR department really need to start the Stetson Bennett for Heisman campaign in full effect because the man’s been amazing the first three games this year plus the games last year.”
Bennett is the first quarterback to start off his season with three straight games of 250+ passing yards and a rushing touchdown since Patrick Mahomes did so in 2016 at Texas Tech. Furthermore, he’s in elite company in the SEC as Tim Tebow and Johnny Manziel are the only other SEC signal callers since 2004 to have at least three consecutive games with that stat-line. Both Tebow and Manziel ended up winning the Heisman Trophy in the seasons that they did that.
No. 1 Georgia (3-0, 1-0 SEC) returns home to take on Kent State this Saturday at Sanford Stadium. Kickoff time is set for 12:00 p.m. ET, streaming on SEC Network+.
