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Injury puts Dogs’ defensive end Dobbs out for rest of spring practice
By Marc Weiszer | Athens Banner-Herald | Story updated at on

Georgia has lost another defensive end with another injury.

Junior Demarcus Dobbs will undergo surgery for a broken bone in his left foot and will miss the rest of spring practice.

Georgia director of sports medicine Ron Courson expects Dobbs to be able to train this summer and be at full capacity for preseason practices.

The injury leaves Georgia with just three healthy scholarship defensive ends for the rest of the spring: Justin Houston, Jeremy Longo and Kiante Tripp.

Coach Mark Richt had said earlier in the week — before Dobbs’ injury — that the defensive ends were “probably the thinnest of all the groups.”

Rod Battle (shoulder), Cornelius Washington (shoulder) and Neland Ball (patella tendon) already were out for the spring.

“We have pretty low numbers right now, so we’re just trying to get through it and stay together like brothers,” Longo said earlier this week.

Dobbs sustained his injury — described as a fracture to the fifth metatarsal — during Thursday’s practice. He started four games last year when he had two sacks and a pair of interceptions.

Georgia’s first spring scrimmage was postponed today because of the rainy weather.

Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, March 27, 2009


At least this shouldn't affect his fall practice status. Still...

Ouch! Know that wlayton will be

MAN, here we go again.....Nooooooooo, not this year.....Geeeeeezzzzz.

Hopefully we'll be healthy for the fall. GATA Kiante!

Tell you what watson, Kiante had better lose some more weight if he expects to play DE. He has gone from 300+ down to about 285 but needs to get a little lighter IMO.

wlayton wrote:

Tell you what watson, Kiante had better lose some more weight if he expects to play DE. He has gone from 300+ down to about 285 but needs to get a little lighter IMO.

wlayton, know exactly what you are saying. SPEED KILLS.

This is another reason to have our LB's and DB's using the blitz package a little more often. Would much rather see the LB's in a blitz mode, versus backpeddling and trying to cover receivers in many situations. We were in drop zones way too much in my opinion. We definitely have SPEED THAT KILLS in the LB corps and feel with Coach Jancek we might see more aggressive play toward the QB, rather that dropping. Just one old farts take . . . .