Georgia football: who is Bryan Bresee, prospect visiting Athens this weekend
Georgia football is back on the recruiting trail, but one big time recruit’s trail runs through Athens, Georgia this weekend.
After this season, the defensive line of the Georgia football team may go thin with players like Tyler Clark, Julian Rochester, Michael Barnett and others exhausting their eligibility. The Bulldogs signed an elite group of interior and exterior linemen in 2019, but to maintain depth, they’ll need another great crop of linemen in the 2020 class.
The Bulldogs have already began working on that depth with commitments from four-star defensive tackles Jamil Burroughs and Nazir Stackhouse. They can continue that work this weekend as Georgia hosts Bryan Bresee, the no. 2 player and the best strongside defensive end in America.
Who is Bryan Bresee? Could he play the interior or the edge in Georgia’s defense? And what chances to the Bulldogs have of signing one of the best players in the Big 10 and ACC contested territory?
247Sports says Breese is 6-5, 290 lbs, but he might be larger than that. He’s absolutely massive for a defensive end. He may be listed as a strongside defensive end, but [and this might sound corny] any side he lines up on in high school is the weakside. He is a powerful football player. Hopefully it’s not a product of the area he plays in, but none of those kids can block him. At least not on consecutive plays.
He has a great takeoff when the ball is snapped and if blockers aren’t ready, he’s plowing straight through them. Once he gets past the blocker, he uses a large wingspan to trap running backs and quarterbacks. Then it’s back to the power game with an easy tackle.
He doesn’t just use power to get in the backfield either. He’s surprisingly graceful for someone near 300 lbs. That comes from using his hands very well to swat away blockers to go around them, when he doesn’t have to bull rush them. Lastly, he’s great in pursuit of ball carries, especially running quarterbacks. He takes great angles to the QB, never running straight towards them, always at an angle that keeps the QB from moving forward.
As for how Bresee fits into Georgia’s system, he’s practically tailor made for it. His team, Damascus High School in Damascus, Md, places him in a variety of formations. He’ll play off the edge in formations with three or four-man lines. In 3-4 formations in which the outside linebackers play off the edges, he’ll move to interior defensive end and play more like a defensive tackle. That is what head coach Kirby Smart wants from defensive ends, the ability to excel at the position in both formations.
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Can Georgia sign him? Absolutely, though better recruitment of West Virginia’s Darnell White could have helped us sign Bresee. Outside of Pennsylvania natives D’Andre Swift and Mark Webb, Georgia’s hasn’t quite built a recruiting base in that part of the country. Maryland is firmly within Big 10 and ACC country. Signing Bresee would not only better the team, it would better Georgia’s chances of signing other great players from the area.