Georgia Football’s Specialists Aim for Record breaking 2019

One area Georgia football shouldn’t have to worry about this year is the special teams unit. With Rodrigo Blankenship coming back for his senior year, the Dawgs could have one of the best in the country.

The biggest break Georgia football fans got this offseason was the announcement that star kicker, Rodrigo Blankenship would return for his senior season.

In the last two years, Blankenship has annihilated Georgia kicking records left and right.

As a sophomore, he kicked 67 touchbacks, made 20-of-23 field goals, was perfect with 63 PATs, and scored 123 points that season.

Blankenship surpassed Kevin Butler’s 51 touchbacks on a season that year. That was the first record he broke, after that the records started to fall like dominos.

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Then in his junior year, Blankenship kicked 82 touchbacks, made 19-of-23 field goals, kicked a perfect 65 PATs, and scored 122 points on the season.

He ripped up the 67 touchbacks he made the year before and set the record even high for future kickers.

Blankenship also set the record for the most consecutive extra points made with 154.

He sits at No. 3 on Georgia’s career PAT ranking with those 154 extra points.

Now heading into his senior season, he has the opportunity to break at least six records.

Those records are career touchbacks,  increase his number in most consecutive PAT’s made, most PAT’s attempted in a season, most made PAT’s in his career and a season, most points kicking in his career, and potentially the most made field goals in a career.

And those aren’t even all of the records he could break this season.

Blankenship is 34 field goals away from tying Billy Bennett’s record from 2000-03. He is 99 points away from taking Blair Walsh’s top spot in most career points kicking. Blankenship needs to score nine more points this season than he did last year to take the title for most points kicking in a season.

He needs 67 more PAT attempts to take the most PAT’s tried in a career title. I could keep going, but it is simple, Georgia has the best kicker in the country, and he is coming into his final season ready to break records.

Blankenship could go down as one of the best kickers in Bulldog history, and potentially go as a first-round draft pick in the 2020 NFL draft. One area Georgia shouldn’t have to worry about and that’s its kicker.