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Georgia football injury report: Kirby Smart offers update on Chauncey Bowens, Juan Gaston

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Georgia Bulldogs running back Chauncey Bowens (33) runs the ball as Auburn Tigers take on Georgia Bulldogs at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. Auburn Tigers lead Georgia Bulldogs 10-3 at halftime.

When Georgia took down Auburn on Saturday for the ninth-straight meeting, it did so with sophomore running back Chauncey Bowens playing a limited number of snaps. The Bulldogs’ leading rusher thus far in 2025 is battling a lower-leg injury according to Kirby Smart, but his prognosis is good for this week’s top-10 showdown with Ole Miss inside Sanford Stadium.

“He should be fine,” Smart said. He should be ready to go this week.”

The 10th-year head coach added that Bowens was bothered by the injury last week. At no point was his status for Saturday’s game in question, but after Georgia struggled to run the ball early on and saw that Nate Frazier and Josh McCray were playing well, the staff elected to lean on those two.

Bowens, who recorded his first career 100-yard game against Alabama and came back with 70 yards against Kentucky the following week, played just 11 snaps at Auburn. He had four carries for five yards. The longest was a two-yard touchdown run in the third quarter to tie the game at 10.

Freshman right tackle Juan Gaston failed to finish Saturday’s game. According to Smart, the former four-star prospect aggravated an ankle injury during the game and was in and out of the injury tent. He didn’t sound quite as optimistic about the mammoth lineman, saying that he would try to go this week as Georgia prepares for Ole Miss.

Gaston started Georgia’s season opener against Marshall but only played 19 snaps after suffering an ankle sprain and a knee sprain on the same leg. He missed week two and returned in week three against Tennessee but did not finish the game. Since the bye week, Gaston has played at least 29 snaps in each of the past three games. He saw 52 snaps against Auburn.

All signs point to junior left tackle Monroe Freeling being available again this week. Freeling, who sustained an ankle injury on Georgia’s opening drive vs. Kentucky nine days ago, did not start at Auburn. He did, however, play 65 of the Bulldogs’ 74 snaps after being listed as questionable throughout the week per the SEC’s student-athlete availability report. The South Carolina native was designated as a game-time decision in the report released 90 minutes before kickoff.

Prior to the Auburn game, Freeling had started 10 straight games at left tackle dating back to last season. Five of those starts came last year after Freeling had been rotating in at both tackle positions through the first nine games.

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