Catch AJ while you can Dawg fans

Georgia fans will likely be watching AJ Green suit up for the final time Friday afternoon as Georgia faces UCF in the Liberty Bowl. Though Green shot down a recent report my boy Zach Klein of WSB (he sourced two people close to the wide receiver admitting that he will leave), it would be possibly the dumbest decision in draft history to pass up a top-five spot in the draft to stay in college one more year. You do that and you are risking injury or becoming the next Matt Leinart, aka seeing your stock drop and the money fly out the door. Sadly for DawgNation, he may choose to look at recent Georgia history to see what happened to Quentin Moses and Ben Watson, who both returned and both saw top-15 draft slots melt away. So Georgia fans, tune in or head over to Memphis to catch the best receiver in college football don the Red & Black once more.

Did you catch that last sentence? YEAH, I said THE BEST RECEIVER in college football. With all due respect to the voters of the All-America team, you guys are dopes. Do you even watch college football? Oklahoma State’s Justin Blackmon put up at least 100 yards and a score each game and Alshon Jeffery led South Carolina to the SEC East title, but neither of those two has what AJ Green has. Blackmon’s abilities come closest to Green’s, but at the end of the day, playing wide receiver in a wide open Oklahoma State offense going up against soft Big XII defenses isn’t as impressive as what Green did this year in Athens. And Titus Young (Boise State), Julio Jones (Alabama) and Ryan Broyles (Oklahoma), you guys are nice little stories but you know you’d be a complementary receiver if Green was a Bronco, Tide or Sooner, respectively.

Did you see Green’s falling one-handed catch in his first game back against Colorado? Did you see how he sliced up Tennessee and then hauled in that amazing score against Florida? Do you remember big he played (nine catches, 164 yards, and two scores) against Auburn? The catches this guy made were catches that some receivers in the NFL would only dare dream of making. Blackmon is a nice receiver, same with Jeffery, but I don’t think you’ll find many receivers in the NFL scared of those two taking their jobs like they likely are with Green. Green played eight games this year, hauled in nine scores and went for 771 yards on 49 catches…while being double and triple-teamed.

Georgia fans, tune in Friday to see the best receiver in college football suit up in the silver britches one last time. Anyone that says Green isn’t simply hasn’t been watching the man play the games. He was the best player on the field in nearly every game he played this year (Auburn game was the lone exception and he still gave Newton a run for his money) and could be the best overall player in the upcoming draft class.

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