Georgia Bulldog OL Tate Ratledge Ready For Final Ride In 2024
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ATHENS - Starting Georgia Bulldog offensive lineman Tate Ratledge is back for one final season.
The former five-star from Darlington, Georgia is looking to lead one of the nation’s top offensive line groups towards another national championship this fall. He spoke with reporters on Thursday about his grown over his career, his mindset heading into fall camp, off-season improvements, and more.
On his growth as a player at Georgia…
“Not taking it for granted, for sure. I just got asked about camp a minute ago, and I was like ‘it’s football, this is the fun part of what we do.’ I definitely don’t take football for granted seeing how fast it can be taken away from me, and I think that gave me a chance to mature and kind of just like sticking to the older players hip and learn from them so I think that’s what helped me.”
On the mindset of fall camp and preparing for the season…
“I look forward to it, it’s football, it’s the fun part of what we do. We aren’t out there running. We aren’t out there swinging weight around. It’s football. We get to go play football. It’s what were here for, its what we do. I think that something to look forward to every year, and as you get older, you kind of learn that and think, ‘these younger guys are going to figure that out at some point.’ It took me some time to figure that out.”
On areas he looked to improve upon in the offseason to prepare for the 2024 season…
“For me, there’s weightroom goals. I wanted to clean 405 and bench over X amount of squats over that. For me physically, it was kind of just play style. Working my hands, I had a bad habit of having bad hands last year, and that’s something I can really improve on this year, There’s the mental aspect, safety rotations, coverages, seeing things before they happen, stuff like that. That’s something as a group we’ve tried to learn together and tried to get better at.”
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