Georgia football coach Kirby Smart said last month at SEC Media Days that this preseason camp in Athens would contain the “greatest competition we’ve had since my arrival.”
That competition apparently has started sooner rather than later.
After Tuesday afternoon’s fifth practice of preseason camp, Smart said some of the players he expected to excel have not done so to this point. The Bulldogs had to start Tuesday’s practice indoors due to lightning strikes in the area but were eventually able to get outside.
“The biggest concern I have is that the best players have to play the best, and that hasn’t happened so far in camp,” Smart said in a news conference. “We’ve got some guys who I consider to be really good players who aren’t playing up to their potential, but we’ve also got a lot of players who were twos and threes last year who I think are playing pretty well.
“So we’ve got some good competition going on out there.”