UGA's Keith Marshall and Justin Scott-Wesley out for the season

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Each with a torn ACL:

ATHENS, Ga. -- Georgia's offense suffered at least two devastating blows in Saturday's 34-31 overtime victory at Tennessee.

Tailback Keith Marshall and receiver Justin Scott-Wesley each tore the ACL in his right knee against the Volunteers and will miss the rest of the season. Marshall's came on a hit while reaching to catch a pass, and Scott-Wesley's came while covering a punt.

"It's sad for our players," Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "You've seen them work so hard to get in position to play for Georgia and realize their dreams to play in big games like that and try to win championships and all that. You see how much work they put in and how hard they play for you and work in practice for you and that offseasons and all that.

"And then they know in one play like that, it's taken away from them. It's heartbreaking. I don't know what hurts more: the pain of injury or just the pain of knowing that you're not going to get to play anymore for a while. I just feel bad for them."

Richt was unable to offer a prognosis on Michael Bennett's injured right knee. The junior receiver will undergo arthroscopic surgery Tuesday to determine the extent of the setback he suffered Saturday while blocking at the end of a run.

"I just don't know," Richt said of Bennett, who also missed half of last season with a torn right ACL.

Even if Bennett returns this fall, No. 7 Georgia's prolific offense has absorbed a remarkable amount of injury damage since the season started.

Junior receiver Malcolm Mitchell suffered a torn ACL in the first quarter of the opener at Clemson while celebrating a Todd Gurley touchdown run. Then All-SEC tailback Gurley rolled his left ankle in the second quarter of last week's win against LSU. Richt said Sunday that Gurley is questionable for next weekend's game against No. 25 Missouri (5-0, 1-0).

"The last thing we want to do is rush anything on Todd," Richt said after telling reporters Saturday that Gurley was 50-50 to face Missouri.

And now with Marshall and Scott-Wesley joining Mitchell on the sideline for the rest of the season and Bennett out for the time being, offensive coordinator Mike Bobo must cobble together an offense without at least one of his top two tailbacks and three of his top four receivers.

"It takes a little while to start processing all that," Richt said. "We're really focusing more on what we're going to do this week. ... So we've got to just dig deep and give some other guys opportunities and get them all repped up and make some plays."

Freshmen J.J. Green (129 rushing yards vs. Tennessee) and Brendan Douglas (25 yards rushing, 32 receiving) filled in competently for Gurley and Marshall on Saturday, but Georgia's offense bogged down with so many playmakers out of the lineup.

Paced by a 57-yard Aaron Murray run, the Bulldogs (4-1, 3-0 SEC) rushed for 167 yards in the second half against the Vols. But they passed for just 77 yards after intermission and were just 1-for-9 on third down until Murray led the Bulldogs to three third-down conversions on their 75-yard touchdown drive at the end of regulation, which ended with his game-tying scoring pass to Rantavious Wooten with 5 seconds remaining.

Richt said the two freshmen might again be the centerpieces of Georgia's running game on Saturday, with walk-ons Kyle Karempelis and Brandon Harton and possibly fellow freshman A.J. Turman playing a supporting role if Gurley is unable to go.

"We're not going to push him any faster," Richt said. "We like the two true freshman backs that have played recently. We think they're good football players and A.J.'s a talent. And these other two guys, Karempelis and Harton, have played well for us before."

Georgia also lost punter Collin Barber to a concussion -- suffered as he chased Devaun Swafford on Tennessee's blocked punt touchdown in the third quarter -- and played the entire game without receiver Jonathon Rumph (hamstring) and safeties Tray Matthews (hamstring) and Connor Norman (concussion).

Richt said Barber and Norman are day to day and said Rumph will likely be unavailable for the Missouri game, but remains unsure whether Matthews will recover in time to contribute Saturday.

"You know how hamstrings go," Richt said. "Sometimes they go relatively quick, sometimes they take a while, so I don't know about him."
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Georgia Bulldogs' Keith Marshall, Justin Scott-Wesley out for season - ESPN
 
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Fleetwood1104 said:
was a dirty play IMO that took out Marshall, shouldn't have happened
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You've got to be joking right. Marshall was streaking out to the flat uncovered. Sutton was able to fly up and make a hit. The whole thing happened so fast that to label it dirty is ridiculous. I seriously doubt can thought "hey this looks like a good chance to aim at his knees" while he sprinted up to make a play. No he just ran there and made a sound tackle that every coach in america will teach. Hate it for Marshall but there was nothing dirty on that play. Sometimes crap just happens
 
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Fleetwood1104 said:
was a dirty play IMO that took out Marshall, shouldn't have happened
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Lol dumbest thing I've ever seen on this board, and that's saying a lot. If UGA had done that to Neal I would have thought it was clean and just a bad break. CBs are taught to go low on RBs. As mentioned, that was a textbook tackle.
 
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Unfortunate but not dirty. Sutton was making a play. Bad read by Murray.

Sutton took a gamble and guessed right otherwise the receiver walks in the endzone.
 
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The irony here is if he would have gone high on the hit he chanced getting a targeting penalty. I think we are going to see a lot more knee and leg injuries because of this stupid new rule.
 
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UGA insider said:
Unfortunate but not dirty. Sutton was making a play. Bad read by Murray.

Sutton took a gamble and guessed right otherwise the receiver walks in the endzone.
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I don't know if it was a gamble as much as he read the play correctly. Murray just assumed too quickly that Cam would take the slot as the play is designed for that to happen and the RB gets free in the flat.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
I don't know if it was a gamble as much as he read the play correctly. Murray just assumed too quickly that Cam would take the slot as the play is designed for that to happen and the RB gets free in the flat.
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I think Cam gambled. The receiver behind him could have walked in the endzone. I'm pretty sure he read the swing pass before Murray threw it, leaving his guy behind. If Murray would have seen it Georgia has six on that play.
 
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rjd970 said:
The irony here is if he would have gone high on the hit he chanced getting a targeting penalty. I think we are going to see a lot more knee and leg injuries because of this stupid new rule.
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Exactly. This is what players are forced to do now due to the rule changes.
 
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UGA insider said:
Unfortunate but not dirty. Sutton was making a play. Bad read by Murray.

Sutton took a gamble and guessed right otherwise the receiver walks in the endzone.
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That was definitely a tough break, but I really hate seeing guys on any team blow out a knee without any contact at all. I felt for the two that just collapsed for what seemed like no reason. That's what got Hunter, Maggitt, and I think Randolph too.
 
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we'll see what kind of team uga is with these injuries next week losing gurley, marshall, & the their top 3 wr's should be huge

i think mizzou might win if gurley cant play i mean the defense is obviously not good and thats alot to put on murray's back to ask him to win with all back ups
 
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You're going to see more and more knee injuries because of the stupid targeting rules put in place. They're trying to reduce concussions and will increase knee/lower body/leg injuries.
 
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BIG BOI 23 said:
we'll see what kind of team uga is with these injuries next week losing gurley, marshall, & the their top 3 wr's should be huge

i think mizzou might win if gurley cant play i mean the defense is obviously not good and thats alot to put on murray's back to ask him to win with all back ups
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I think it's going to be tough for UGA to pull that one out, but I think Mizzou may be this year's Miss State from last year. Soft schedule, undefeated start, all that hype. Then crashed and burned. I may be wrong though, but that's my opinion. I think Murray is enough for them to win.
 
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not at all surprised that would get called a clean hit around here. it's effectively no different than a DE diving at a QBs knees. tackling is using your arms to tackle not using yourself as a projectile or trying to undercut someone.

MSME Vol said:
You've got to be joking right. Marshall was streaking out to the flat uncovered. Sutton was able to fly up and make a hit. The whole thing happened so fast that to label it dirty is ridiculous. I seriously doubt can thought "hey this looks like a good chance to aim at his knees" while he sprinted up to make a play. No he just ran there and made a sound tackle that every coach in america will teach. Hate it for Marshall but there was nothing dirty on that play. Sometimes crap just happens
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I'm not saying it was intentional by any means but you show me one coach who teaches tackling by undercutting a player at the knees. they teach tackling by driving your shoulder into the body of the player and wrapping your arms around them, but if you say so it's the same thing i guess.

BigZiti09 said:
Your opinion is wrong.
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as is yours so, guess we're even

DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
Whatever. Sutton's hit was text book.
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jjay2518 said:
Lol dumbest thing I've ever seen on this board, and that's saying a lot. If UGA had done that to Neal I would have thought it was clean and just a bad break. CBs are taught to go low on RBs. As mentioned, that was a textbook tackle.
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again show me this textbook that does not include wrapping a player up and hitting him in his knee

velovol said:
it wasnt a textbook hit as his helmet was down, but it wasnt dirty, far from it
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sooooo does that make it a clean hit? as i've said i'm sure it wasn't intentional by any means and the guy isn't a dirty player but he wasn't playing the ball or the player otherwise he wouldn't have been so low as to take out a knee

rjd970 said:
The irony here is if he would have gone high on the hit he chanced getting a targeting penalty. I think we are going to see a lot more knee and leg injuries because of this stupid new rule.
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not if he didn't launch or lead with the helmet to the helmet. a shoulder to the torso or chest to chest so that he could use his arms to tackle wouldn't have gotten him a targeting/
 
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