Rising senior has missed the past few spring practices w/ injuries and is thinking of hanging up his cleats. Over the past 3 years he's played in 16 games and made 9 receptions for 88 yards.

Note: on paper UGA has 88 players (once the remaining 17 Class of 2018 signees enroll this summer) and need to get down to 85 via attrition (e.g., medical exemptions, player retirements, transfers, dismissals, academic casualties).

https://www.dawgnation.com/football/team-news/georgia-receiver-michael-chigbu-may-leave-team

https://georgiadogs.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3076

Hate it for the young man but his playing time would be minimal this year, and this helps clear another spot so I definitely see this happening since we are seeing this floated around now. This leaves two more casualties remaining, just wonder who they might be. My guess would be Marshall Long, Justin Young or Michael Barnett-also wonder if potentially one of the signees might not make it in school? Reason I say those three young men is because all either are coming off injury or are currently battling injuries. With DL being a position of little depth, I would hope that we would keep those two-but we have an outstanding P coming in and it makes no sense to have two scholarship punters.

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Hate it for the young man but his playing time would be minimal this year, and this helps clear another spot so I definitely see this happening since we are seeing this floated around now. This leaves two more casualties remaining, just wonder who they might be. My guess would be Marshall Long, Justin Young or Michael Barnett-also wonder if potentially one of the signees might not make it in school? Reason I say those three young men is because all either are coming off injury or are currently battling injuries. With DL being a position of little depth, I would hope that we would keep those two-but we have an outstanding P coming in and it makes no sense to have two scholarship punters.

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I wouldn't be surprised if any of those players you mentioned opts to move on after spring semester. Other possibles would be players that have been in the program for >2 years but aren't seeing much playing time (e.g., OL Pat Allen, OL/DL Chris Barnes, OLB Keyon Brown). Knock on wood, but hopefully Natrez Patrick stays clean as he's on the verge of being suspended for a year if he slips up. Also, hopefully all of the players currently on campus have their grades straight and the inbounds have their test scores and grades squared away (fwiw, someone on the former 'Dawg Post' website mentioned on NSD on 7 February 2018 that 1-2 of our inbounds weren't academically qualified yet).

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UGA currently has 70 scholarship players on campus. If Chigbu departs, then the Dawgs will have 69 scholarship players. This summer, 17 Class of 2018 signees are supposed to report along w/ CB Deangelo Gibbs (who isn't enrolled this semester). If all of them make it in, then UGA would have 87 scholarship players. Since 85 is the maximum allowable, then we'll lose at least 2 more players by this summer.

2018 UGA Football Roster as of 12 Apr 18 (i.e., currently on campus):

1. 4-star RS Sophomore OL Pat Allen
2. 3-star junior DB Deandre Baker
3. 4-star RS Junior OT Kendall Baker
4. 3-star RS Freshman OL Chris Barnes - moved to DL yesterday
5. 4-star RS Sophomore DT Michael Barnett - partially dislocated kneecap this spring
6. 4-star freshman LB Robert Beal, Jr.
7. 4-star freshman DB Tray Bishop
8. 3-star RS Sophomore PK Rodrigo Blankenship (13/0) - former walk-on placed on scholarship in September 2017
9. 4-star freshman WR Trey Blount
10. 3-star freshman DB Latavious Brini
11. 4-star RS Junior OLB Keyon Brown
12. 4-star sophomore DL Michail Carter
*13. 3-star junior WR Michael Chigbu - last played vs. UK; due to unspecified injuries, he's not participating in spring practices and is thinking of retiring from the sport as of 12 Apr 18
14. 4-star sophomore DL Tyler Clark
15. 4-star RS Freshman OL Ben Cleveland
16. 5-star DE Brenton Cox - enrolled on 8 Jan 18
17. 3-star RS Sophomore LB Tae Crowder
18. 2-star junior WR Ahkil Crumpton
19. 4-star freshman OC Warren Ericson
20. 5-star freshman QB Justin Fields
21. 4-star freshman QB Jake Fromm
22. 4-star RS Junior C Lamont Gaillard
23. 5-star junior WR Terry Godwin
24. 4-star freshman LB Walter Grant
25. 5-star sophomore WR Mecole Hardman
26. 4-star junior TE Jackson Harris
27. 3-star junior DT DaQuan Hawkins-Muckle
28. 4-star junior OL D'Marcus Hayes
29. 3-star sophomore RB Brian Herrien
30. 4-star freshman DL Malik Herring
31. 4-star OG Trey Hill - enrolled on 8 Jan 18
32. 4-star freshman WR Jeremiah Holloman
33. 4-star sophomore RB Elijah Holyfield
34. 4-star freshman LB Jaden Hunter
35. 4-star freshman WR Kearis Jackson - enrolled on 5 Jan 18
36. 4-star freshman OL Netori Johnson
37. 3-star RS Freshman OL Solomon Kindley
38. 4-star sophomore LB Jaleel Laguins
39. 3-star freshman WR Matt Landers
40. 5-star freshman DB Richard LeCounte III
41. 4-star junior DE Jonathan Ledbetter
42. 3-star sophomore P Marshall Long
43. 3-star sophomore OLB David Marshall
44. 5-star freshman OT Cade Mays - enrolled on 5 Jan 18
45. 4-star freshman LB Nate McBride
46. 3-star sophomore DB Tyrique McGhee
47. 5-star sophomore TE Isaac Nauta
48. 4-star junior LB Natrez Patrick
49. 4-star freshman DB William Poole
50. 3-star RS Sophomore DB J. R. Reed
51. 4-star freshman LB Monty Rice
52. 4-star sophomore WR Riley Ridley
53. 4-star sophomore DL Julian Rochester
54. 3-star freshman OL Justin Shaffer - had knee surgery and is out for spring practice
55. 3-star sophomore WR Tyler Simmons
56. 3-star freshman DB Ameer Speed
57. 4-star junior WR Jayson Stanley
58. 3-star freshman DB Eric Stokes
59. 5-star freshman RB D'Andre Swift
60. 3-star junior LB Juwan Taylor
61. 4-star freshman OL Andrew Thomas
62. 4-star junior OLB D'Andre Walker
63. 4-star freshman DB Mark Webb
64. 5-star freshman RB Zamir White - enrolled on 8 Jan 18
65. 4-star freshman CB Divaad Wilson - enrolled on 5 Jan 18 (tore ACL on 24 Mar 18 during first padded Spring practice)
66. 5-star freshman OL Isaiah Wilson
67. 3-star junior SS Jarvis Wilson
68. 4-star sophomore TE Charlie Woerner
69. 4-star sophomore DT Devonte Wyatt - enrolled on 5 Jan 18
70. 3-star RS Sophomore DE Justin Young

Note: 4-star freshman DB DeAngelo Gibbs isn't enrolled for 2018 Spring Semester but is expected back this summer (similar to DT Trenton Thompson last year); btw, Gibbs also underwent left shoulder surgery to repair an injury he suffered during last spring practice

Good stuff AFD, I did think about Pat Allen because he is SR, of course Barnes just moved over to DL so I think he will stay to see what shakes out there. Keyon Brown is also a rising SR but I thought he did get some PT at least on special teams. I think we are likely to see one or two current roster players leave and then maybe 1 or 2 of class of 18 kids don't get in. I wouldn't be surprised if we are at 84 when fall camp rolls around-we were short a few last year when fall rolled around and got Crumpton in at the last minute also had a spot for Hot Rod as well.