Georgia receiver Tavarres King (12)SO WHO’S LEFT?A look at Georgia’s scholarship receivers following season-ending injuries to Michael Bennett and Marlon Brown:PLAYER NO. YDS TDSTavarres King 27 / 551 / 6Malcolm Mitchell 26 / 358 / 2Rantavious Wooten 12 / 154 / 2Chris Conley 7 / 84 / 1Rhett McGowan 5 / 62 / 0Justin Scott-Wesley 1 / 43 / 0Blake Tibbs redshirting
ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia’s football team is getting low on receivers again, and this time they’re not coming back.
After losing Michael Bennett to a torn anterior cruciate ligament early last month in practice, the Bulldogs suffered another setback in Saturday’s 37-10 win over Ole Miss when Marlon Brown tore his ACL in the third quarter. Georgia is moving on to this week’s game at Auburn with a smaller contingent of targets for quarterback Aaron Murray.
“It’s tough losing both of them, because they’re both physical receivers who could play multiple positions,” Murray said Tuesday. “They were guys you could move around, which is huge in our offense, so to lose both of them definitely stinks. I feel extremely bad for Marlon, because it’s his senior year, and it’s definitely not the way you want to go out.”
The 6-foot-5, 222-pound Brown had 27 receptions for 469 yards and four touchdowns — that number of catches leading the No. 5 Bulldogs along with fellow senior Tavarres King. The 6-foot-3, 208-pound Bennett was leading the team with 24 catches for 345 yards and four scores at the time of his injury.