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Episode 2682: 2 former 5-stars who could step up for UGA in 2026

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DawgNation Daily

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4.7941 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

DawgNation Daily -- the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fans Beginning of the show: I discuss a couple of former five-stars, one on each side of the ball, who could be in line for big success in 2026. 15-minute mark: I explain why the emergence of a pair of offensive linemen might be among the more significant developments from UGA spring practice so far. 30-minute mark: Former UGA linebacker Davin Bellamy joins the show. 45-minute mark: I take a look at other SEC headlines including a perhaps surprising update on former UGA quarterback commit Jared Curtis at Vanderbilt. End of show: I award a Golden Shoe winner and share the Gator Hater Updater.

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0:00.0

Today's episode of Dog Nation Daily is brought to you by Dr. Pepper, college football and Dr. Pepper.

0:05.5

It's a Pepper thing.

0:09.6

Presented by Dog Nation.com.

0:11.9

This is Dog Nation Daily, the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fame.

0:16.1

Here's your host, Brandon Adam.

0:17.5

I thought we had a pretty fun topic to open yesterday's show.

0:20.7

It's one of those things that just, I think, hits sports fans in a really good way.

0:26.1

You love the idea of, in professional sports, it's the big time rookie.

0:30.6

You know, it's the college sports.

0:32.2

It's more like the five-star recruit.

0:33.8

There are players that arrive at Georgia with a lot of fanfare.

0:39.7

And those guys succeeding,

0:44.9

those guys helping propel Georgia to everything that it wants to do. There's always going to be something about that that's fond. And sometimes for former five star type guys, we see that year one.

0:51.4

Probably see it less now than we maybe used to. It's become a little bit of an old man's

0:54.9

game. And we've talked about this. But you do see this sort of thing happen where every now and then

1:00.7

the recruit is just so good. Every now and then the talent is so overwhelming that from the word go,

1:08.1

this is a player that's very good. Sometimes, though, there's a little bit of seasoning that takes place.

1:13.6

And if you play one of the positions that requires a lot of physical contact with somebody

1:17.8

on the other line of scrimmage, it seems like that's one of those spots where sometimes

1:21.3

a little bit of experience, growing into your body, figuring some of this kind of stuff out.

1:27.1

It seems like there's some of that in

1:28.8

college footballs. For instance, a guy we talked about on yesterday's show is Elijah Griffin. Griffin

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