REPORT: UGA Football RB Trevor Etienne Makes Decision on 2025 Season
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ATHENS - A big piece of UGA football's 2025 season just made his decision known.
Trevor Etienne is expected to return to UGA football for the 2025 season. That’s according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Consitution published Tuesday afternoon. Etienne accounted for 631 rushing yards on 122 carries during ten of UGA’s 14 games in 2024. He missed a slew of games and snaps in the middle-to-late part of the season with a rib injury that all but kept him out of games with Ole Miss and his former team Florida.
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Etienne’s return is perhaps the biggest positive for the Bulldogs in a turbulent off season that has already seen ten Bulldogs leave the program in the NCAA transfer portal and another six set to play in Silver Britches this fall.
The explosiveness the Bulldogs so badly missed this past season could be on display in 2025. Wide receiver transfers Zachariah Branch (USC) and Noah Thomas (Texas A&M) should provide the Bulldogs extra punch on the outside. Dillon Bell announced his return on social media Tuesday as well.
Etienne scored the Bulldogs' championship-winning touchdown at the 2024 SEC Championship Game over No. 2 Texas in overtime in Atlanta. An injured Carson Beck entered the game and handed the ball off to Etienne who scampered his way into the end zone for the game-winning score.
“It was the perfect handoff,” Etiene told reporters after the game. “Best handoff of my life.”
“I assumed he would be able to stay in,” Kirby said of Beck after the game. “I realized we were going to have to take a snap with another quarterback. One of the offensive coaches said: ‘Carson can take a snap - that’s not an issue.’ So we did that.”
Kirby told reporters after the Bulldogs’ 15th SEC championship that Etienne was invaluable in the game.
“Trevor Etienne was the MVP because he came and said: ‘Coach, I want to play this game, I want to win a championship,’” Kirby said in the post-game press confernce. “He stood up in front of the team and told the team: ‘I don’t know how y’all feel about this game because I haven’t been here. But y’all have played in it a lot, and I haven’t, and I want to play in this game. I want to win this championship, it’s part of the reason that I came here.’”