When you speak as much as I do you’re bound to get plenty wrong, and boy do I. Therefore, the occasional correct prediction is pretty gratifying — similar to the one good golf shot near the end of an otherwise forgettable round that convinces you to keep playing that forsaken sport.
I’m happy to say I recently had one of those predictions.
We said it would be beneficial for Georgia running back Nate Frazier to have the former Bulldog Robert Edwards working with him as an assistant running backs coach. Given Frazier’s appreciation for Georgia’s history at his position, we thought Frazier would take to Edwards quickly — and the early returns suggest that’s exactly what has happened.
Frazier spoke to reporters Tuesday about his blossoming relationship with Edwards and his goals for his third season at UGA, after much fanfare regarding the efforts to secure him on the roster and prevent him from fielding lucrative transfer offers.
Now that that work is done, the real work can commence. Georgia’s running game took a significant step forward in 2025, but it still wants to be even more explosive this season. Frazier, who has his sights set on becoming one of the program’s greats, could help accomplish that, and one of his legendary predecessors at UGA could help make it happen.
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Where was Georgia football’s first game played?
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Nate Frazier has no doubts
As if Frazier didn’t have enough on his plate entering his junior season at Georgia, the star running back decided he wanted to adopt a dog.
In the midst of spring practice, while handling all the duties that are required of a Georgia football player, Frazier is trying to potty train a French Bulldog named Dane.
“It’s not as easy as it looks being a dog dad,” Frazier said. “Especially, you know, being here doing football things and trying to maintain all the other things I got going on. It’s not easy. But, man, he keeps me up and going for sure.”
It’s a big year for Frazier, as he returns as Georgia’s leading rusher. He acknowledged the idea that most players of his caliber have one foot out the door with their eyes on the NFL.
Frazier led Georgia in rushing last season while earning Third Team All-SEC honors. With Cash Jones gone, he’s got the chance to carve out an even bigger role in Georgia’s offense when it comes to third down.
Frazier led Georgia last season with 947 rushing yards while scoring six touchdowns. He did that despite an early-season issue with fumbling, which also plagued him as a freshman.
After the Alabama game Sept. 27, Frazier did not put the ball on the ground again. In 2026, he’s working with Edwards — a former Bulldogs tailback who had his own issues with fumbles — to ensure that issue gets left in the past.
“I’m very pleased with where Nate is,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “I’m happy with his progress. I’m happy with that room’s progress. We gotta break some more tackles in there, and we gotta find some guys that can play on third down.”
Frazier racked up 173 carries last season, with his last one forcing him out of Georgia’s College Football Playoff loss to Ole Miss.
UGA athletics daily recap
Tuesday, March 31
- Baseball; 14-9 victory over Georgia State
Georgia football injury update
Georgia is coming up on the halfway point of spring practice. With the pads coming on, the Bulldogs have picked up some bumps and bruises along the way.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Smart provided an update on several Bulldogs.
Quarterback Gunner Stockton has been dealing with a knee injury, wearing a sleeve on his right knee.
“He’s great. He’s practicing,” Smart said. “He had a little off-season injury in our workouts. He’s fine now. He was limited a little bit (the) first couple of days but out there competing, doing a good job, focusing on the other things he needed to improve on.”
Stockton played through an oblique injury during the middle part of last season. Georgia has tried to work with Stockton on limiting the number of hits and bruises he receives during the course of a game. Stockton took two particularly nasty hits in Georgia’s Sugar Bowl loss to Ole Miss.
“It’s been great just being able to look back and the great plays, like, ‘Dang, that was pretty good,’” Stockton said earlier this spring. “And then the bad ones, just like, ‘God, what was I thinking?’ But definitely being able to learn from my mistakes and be able to build on, OK, that was pretty good, having some banked reps in that.”
Elsewhere on the injury front, wide receiver Isiah Canion is dealing with an ankle injury that has limited him during practice thus far.
“It’s nothing real serious,” Smart said of Canion’s injury.
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4-star OL Jimmy Kalis on Georgia’s practices:
“I think that’s a big reason why Georgia develops so well because they play everyone. You can’t get better if you’re on the sideline watching and I think that’s why Georgia emphasizes getting people on the field. That’s why they’ve been so successful over the past couple of years.”
Recruits share 5-star reviews of spring practice
Recruits can get a 5-star ranking. That’s the same set of evaluation criteria often used for hotels, movie reviews and restaurants, among other things.
When it came to the big screen, the 5-star ranking for a movie was reserved for the elite. Those were the masterpieces.
That’s a convenient connection here with what DawgNation has heard from the elite recruits who have visited Georgia football practices so far this month.
They are very much like a focus group invited in for a private screening of the 2026 Georgia football team.
While DawgNation has to wait for G-Day to get their first looks, several prospects have now seen UGA for multiple practices, including back-to-back sessions. Not even Magill Society members have seen that much of the Dawgs.
What are they saying? What were their movie reviews? Here’s a listing of several breakout quotes we’ve heard so far.
Trivia answer
Herty Field
