No Georgia player has made more than 10 career starts both offensively and defensively since Mark Richt has been the coach, but one could be on the way.
Justin Anderson earned seven starts on the offensive line in 2008 and five last season, but he was moved this spring to defense while sitting out with a shoulder injury. The 6-foot-5, 330-pound junior from Ocilla, Ga., has been competing this month at the nose and, according to defensive line coach Rodney Garner, would be a starter if the Bulldogs opened today.
Anderson has been excited since Garner and new defensive coordinator Todd Grantham approached him about moving.
“They were talking about moving to the 3-4 scheme, and they needed some big bodies playing in there,” Anderson said Friday evening after practice. “I was like, ‘Hey, I’m interested.'”
Richt called Anderson into his office to offer his support, and then Anderson went to work learning his new role. He began camp bracketed with redshirt freshman Kwame Geathers as the backups to No. 1 nose DeAneglo Tyson, but Garner said shifting Tyson to end and having Anderson at nose is currently the best combination.