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Once upon a time — in 2021 to be exact — Georgia football had gone through eight straight NFL drafts without a defensive lineman being selected.
That has changed in a rather big way.
Now Georgia is considered “a defensive line factory,” in the words of Vikings senior vice president of player personnel Ryan Grigson on Saturday.
It’s hard to argue with that considering nine Bulldog defensive linemen have gone in the draft in the last four years.
Three Bulldogs defensive linemen were drafted this year: Defensive end Mykel Williams with the No. 11 pick in the first round by the 49ers, defensive end Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins in the fifth round by the Vikings and defensive tackle Warren Brinson in the sixth round by the Packers.
Ingram-Dawkins was viewed as a “high upside,” player, Grigson said, after starting just his last Georgia season.
“You look at the team that won the Super Bowl last year, their defense is basically Georgia,” Grigson told reporters referring to a Philadelphia Eagles team stocked with Georgia players. “They’ve had a plethora of talent there. He’s had to push to a point where he got snaps on the field and got some burn. A lot of times at a program like that, sometimes you don’t play until your last year, especially at a place like Georgia.”
Tray Scott, who is entering his ninth season on Kirby Smart’s Georgia staff, is the defensive line coach who has helped develop all of these NFL draft picks.
Before this year, there were first-rounders Travon Walker, Jordan Davis and Devonte Wyatt in 2022 and Jalen Carter in 2023, along with fifth-rounder Robert Beal that same year and sixth rounder Zion Logue in 2024.
“He is tremendous with his group,” coach Kirby Smart said. “He’s tremendous with other groups. He inspires people with his story, but you know, he cares about these kids. He’s…
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