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Brice Ramsey: Top 5 SEC Passer in 2015?

By John Buhler

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Brice Ramsey enters his RS Sophomore season as the presumptive favorite to win the vacant University of Georgia Bulldogs starting quarterback job in 2015.  Though Junior Faton Bauta and University of Virginia Junior Transfer Greyson Lambert have certainly something to say about it, many feel that the job is Ramsey’s to lose entering fall camp.  Assuming that Brice Ramsey does come out victorious in what will be a heated competition, can he become a Top 5 SEC passer by the end of the season?

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Ramsey has a howitzer of an arm, not Matthew Stafford level but certainly in that same group with Aaron Murray and Zach Mettenberger.  Brice gives new UGA Offensive Coordinator Brian Schottenheimer the luxury to stretch the field in 2015, something former OC Mike Bobo couldn’t do with effective game manager Hutson Mason last year.

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    • We’ve seen how the UGA passing game can take over games when its passer can throw accurate deep balls (Stafford and Murray).  Brice certainly has the arm strength but we’re not sure if he has the accuracy yet due to his limited number of snaps last season (24-39 passing, 3 TD’s, 2 INT’s in 8 games).  The last thing HC Mark Richt and Brian Schottenheimer want is pick sixes coming from overthrown balls in the middle of the secondary.  With Mason, you did have to worry about that.

    I do like Brice Ramsey’s arm talent as a former 4-Star recruit out of Georgia High School Football Powerhouse Camden County in the 2013 Class.  As I look across the SEC landscape of QB’s, I only see one passer guaranteed to have a better year than Brice Ramsey: Mississippi State Senior QB Dak Prescott who could very well end up being a Heisman Trophy Finalist come December.

    Tennessee’s Joshua Dobbs seems like the real deal for the Vols and both Kentucky’s Patrick Towles and Missouri’s Maty Mauk are solid as well.  I’m not buying the hype of Arkansas’ Brandon Allen.  So what if he has experience? He looked terrified in the pocket for the Razorbacks last year against stronger opponents.  And we can’t forget about Kyle Allen in TAMU.  Those Aggies sure love tossing the pigskin for their HC Kevin Sumlin down in College Station.

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    Like Brice Ramsey, Auburn’s Jeremy Johnson and Alabama’s Jacob Coker have promise but minimal experience as SEC quarterbacks, let alone starting in the SEC.  I do think at least one of these three has a great 2015 campaign and leads his team to the 2015 SEC Championship in Atlanta.

    So could Brice Ramsey be a Top 5 passer in the SEC this year?  Potentially, but he’s going to have to earn it.  I don’t think he’ll have a better year than Prescott or Dobbs, but I see Ramsey in that 3rd to 9th mix in the SEC for sure this season.

    If he can hand the ball off to Nick Chubb and company, convert some timely thirds downs, stretch the field a bit, and most importantly not turn the football over, Brice Ramsey has an outside shot at making 3rd All-SEC at QB this fall as a first year starting playing Between the Hedges.  I need football season here, now.  Forever, Go Dawgs!

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