Five things to watch at Georgia football G-Day game Saturday

Kirby Smart was noncommittal early in spring practices about exactly what shape Georgia football’s annual G-Day game may take this year — or if the intrasquad scrimmage scheduled for Saturday would even happen.

It turns out, Saturday’s game may look similar to the others under Smart, who is entering his 10th season with the Bulldogs.

“It’s gonna be as close to every year, it looks like,” Smart said Tuesday on Atlanta’s 680 AM The Fan. “We’re pretty healthy. We’ve got a couple of kids that are out, but we’ve got the numbers we need to divide into teams. …The format will be very similar to what we’ve done in the past. We’re going to play a game and let guys go compete.”

G-Day starts at 1 p.m. It won’t be televised or streamed, but still offers Bulldogs fans in attendance a chance to catch a first glimpse of the 2025 team.

“It will be a little different because we’ve been playing in front of nobody right now,” safety JaCorey Thomas said. “You want to see who can play in front of a crowd.”

Tickets still remain listed at $11 on the Georgia athletic website with upper level tickets not being sold.

Here are five things to watch at G-Day:

How QBs Gunner Stockton and Ryan Puglisi are progressing

Redshirt junior Gunner Stockton, who started in the Sugar Bowl and helped Georgia rally to win the SEC championship game, has the inside track for the starting quarterback job.

Ryan Puglisi, a redshirt freshman from Paxton, Mass., will take part in his first spring game after missing much of last spring with a leg injury.

“Being with the offense for a good amount of time now, everything’s starting to slow down, I’m making faster decisions,” Puglisi said.

Smart said Puglisi “has great arm talent…and he’s catching up in terms of his own timeline.”

Stockton has picked up from where he left off…

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