BREAKING: UGA Football's Brock Bowers Makes Decision About the NFL
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ATHENS - Three-time UGA Football All-American Brock Bowers has played his final snap in Silver Britches.
The California native declared for the NFL Draft today - an expected decision for Brock Bowers, who spent the second half of the season dealing with an ankle injury that slowed his impact on games he was able to play in.
Bowers will go down as the greatest tight end in UGA history. He is one of only three players in UGA history to be named an All-American three times - only Herschel Walker and David Pollack join Bowers with that distinction.
Unlike those two stars, however, Bowers won two national titles at Georgia. And the Bulldogs needed him to make both happen. Bowers caught the first and last passes of the 2021 season. The final pass of 2021 was a touchdown against Nick Saban’s Alabama that pushed the Bulldogs to an eight-point lead late in that game. Kelee Ringo’s legendary pick six of Bryce Young cemented the Dawgs’ first national title since Walker’s team did it in 1980.
A season later, Bowers’ alien-like play late in the game against Ohio State converted a fourth down to help Georgia score points in the Dawgs’ wild 42-41 in the Peach Bowl.
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Bowers’ time at Georgia embodied a new age for the Dawgs - thumping their way to back-to-back national titles and becoming the best program in America.
Recruited during COVID and having missed his final season of high school football, Bowers was considered a top prospect, but perhaps not the top overall football player in the nation. But the case could have been made that was the case in 2022 and 2023.
Bowers’ superhero-like effort against Auburn in 2023 drew rave reviews. A few weeks later he was sidelined for the bulk of the remainder of the season with a significant ankle injury that required surgery to correct. Bowers came back for a few games at the conclusion of the season, but he was not at the same speed he had been before that.
Still, UGA coach Kirby Smart said Bowers was an internal part of what Georgia’s 42-2 run during his three years in Athens.
“He came out of the SEC Championship game really beat up, banged up, and did all kinds of work to get healed and get healthy. Mims the same way,” Kirby said. “They were at every single practice, every single meeting. They were at everything they were supposed to be at, and we told them we were going to bring them down here later in the week, and we did that. I got tremendous respect for those two guys who pushed everything they had to get back and really to be honest with you, to give us an opportunity to be in the National Championship. They both came back and really pushed hard. They're tremendous leaders. The team has nothing but respect for them, and I'll never forget what they gave to this program.”
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