As the Georgia Bulldogs prepare for their upcoming match up with Auburn on Saturday, the status of junior quarterback, JT Daniels is still an uncertainty for the game. Daniels, who has been dealing with a “grade 1 lat sprain”, has not seen the field for the Bulldogs since being pulled during the first quarter of Georgia’s game with Vanderbilt and has had limited activity during practices so far this week.
In a recent interview on the Dukes and Bell Show, Connor Riley of DawgNation, spoke with Dukes and Bell about the health of Daniels and when Carl Dukes asked Riley whether or not he should be concerned about the Daniels, Riley made it clear that the fact that Daniels has only played in seven of the 15 Georgia games he has been eligible to play in dating back to the 2020 season, makes it difficult to be optimistic about the quarterback’s future on the field for the Bulldogs.
“Carl, you know I can’t lie to you,” Riley started off in his response to Dukes and continued, that playing in only half of the games he has been eligible for “is not good”. Riley also told Dukes and Bell that “as of Wednesday at 4 o’clock, I don’t expect him to start on Saturday against Auburn,” however, depending on how Daniels could be feeling on Thursday and Friday, his status for Saturday could change.
Riley added that Daniel’s lat injury is one that could possibly last anywhere from the next couple of weeks to a month, which would jeopardize his availability for the Bulldogs tilts with Kentucky and possibly even Florida. “This next three game stretch in where Georgia’s at Auburn, home against a physical Kentucky team and then against Florida in Jacksonville, this is the toughest stretch of Georgia’s schedule and JT Daniels as it stands right now is not healthy entering that stretch,” Riley said.
