Former UGA Football Star Brock Bowers Returning to Athens

ATHENS - Former UGA Football TE Brock Bowers is completing his degree in Athens this spring.

That’s according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Vinny Bonsignore, who reported on Friday that the Raiders’ tight end is “finishing up his college degree.” That means Bowers is missing Las Vegas’ voluntary workouts this spring. 

UGA’s graduation is May 9th in Sanford Stadium - a place he won each game he played during his All-American career at UGA. 

Bowers was selected No. 13 overall by the Raiders a year ago, and he didn’t disappoint his rookie season grabbing 112 catches for 1,194 yards with five touchdowns. His best game came in Las Vegas’ 34-19 loss at Miami where he had 13 receptions for 126 yards and a touchdown. 

UGA graduation is another opportunity for Bowers to accomplish something Between the Hedges. 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 win in the Peach Bowl. 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.