It has been a long time sine Georgia football has received this much doubt entering a season. Many college football experts and analysts are unsure if Georgia will be able to be as strong as they have been the last five years, and a lot of these opinions have given Kirby Smart and his team a lot of extra motivation heading into this season.
Smart is as good as anyone when it comes to finding ways to motivate his team. Georgia's bulletin board is always full of quotes and opinions that will get UGA ready to go for each and every game, and the latest opinion from ESPN's Jordan Reid will surely be added to Smart's bulletin board this season.
Georgia put in "Tier 2" entering 2025 season
Reid recently posted an article for ESPN where he placed the top 12 college football teams into three tiers based on NFL Draft potential entering the 2025 season. And somehow Reid decided to put UGA in the second tier.
Reid's first tier consisted of Penn State, Oregon, Texas and Clemson.
No Georgia fan can deny that this year's team has less NFL potential on it compared to the past few years entering the season, but the Bulldogs still have a lot of talent who likely will be drafted in the upcoming 2026 Draft next season. This is a fact that Reid agrees with as he predicts 11 Bulldogs to be drafted next year which includes two first round picks.
Those numbers are less than the four teams in his first tier, but Reid is making one big mistake. He is assuming that other players on Georgia's team won't vastly improve this season and work their way into the Draft conversation by the end of the season. This is something that has happened every year under Smart, so it seems strange to assume a more unknown player won't burst onto the scene at some point this year.
Either way this is great bulletin board material for Georgia to use this upcoming season. Not just for the individual players Reid doesn't think will be drafted, but for the entire team as a whole to try and prove him wrong.