UGA Football: The five most influential Bulldogs
By Eric Taylor
Pick Analysis. Running back. 1980-82. Herschel Walker. 5. Scouting Report. player. 814
Resumé:
- 1980 National Champion
- Three-time SEC Champion
- 1982 Heisman Winner
- State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame
- Georgia-Florida Hall of Fame
- Three-time All-American
- Three-time All-SEC
- Three-time SEC Coaches’ Player of the Year
- Two-time Georgia Outstanding Offensive Player of the Year
- Maxwell Award Winner (1982)
- Walter Camp Foundation National Player of the Year (1982)
- Two-time UPI National Back of the Year
- Atlanta TD Club Back of the Year (1982)
- College Football Hall of Fame (1999)
- Three-time SEC leader in rushing yards
- Three-time SEC leader in total yards
- Three-time SEC leader in rushing touchdowns
- Three-time SEC leader in total touchdowns
- 5,259 career rushing yards (SEC Record)
- 52 career touchdowns
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Herschel Walker, can you even talk about UGA football without mentioning him? Is there a Georgia football team without Walker? He had to make this list. Not only is he the best player to ever play at Georgia, but he is the best college football player of all-time. Some may say it is that other running back from Alabama, but they would be wrong.
Dawn of the Dawg Expert, Kyle Funderburk, makes the perfect argument for Herschel Walker:
"In Herschel Walker’s three seasons with Georgia football, the team accumulated 13,019 yards. 5,502 of those yards belonged to Herschel Walker. Walker accounted for 42.3-percent of Georgia’s yards over his entire career."
Walker’s combination of size and speed is something you don’t see but once in a generation. He was definitely one of a kind. You also couldn’t ask for a better ambassador for the school.