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Three Georgia players voted to AFCA All-American teams

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The American Football Coaches Association has released its All American teams with three players representing Georgia. Senior long-snapper Beau Gardner is the lone Bulldog to make the first team. The second team includes fourth-year junior center Drew Bobo and junior linebacker CJ Allen are both on the second team.

Gardner is having an incredible postseason after winning the Patrick Mannelly Award on Saturday. The honor, which started in 2019, goes annually to the nation’s top long snapper. He was also named first-team All-SEC. He snapped to the Ray Guy Award winner, Brett Thorson, who was left off the AFCA teams.

After transferring to Georgia from UCLA after the 2023 season, Garnder has handled the long-snapping duties in each of the past two years.

Allen has also been active in the post-season awards circuit. In addition to being a finalist for the Butkus Award, Allen has earned first-team All-SEC honors and was a member of the first-team All American team as voted on by the Associated Press.

Th Barnesville, Ga. native has played in 12 of 13 games this season, missing half of the win over Texas and all of the win over Charlotte with a knee injury. Still, he leads the team in tackles with 85 total. He’s first on the team in tackles for loss with eight and the Butkus Award finalist is second on the team in sacks with 3.5.

Allen also has four pass breakups and two forced fumbles on the year. He made news late last month when he returned to the playing field less than two weeks after undergoing surgery to trim his meniscus. He played 34 snaps in the Bulldogs’ win over Georgia Tech.

Bobo is in his first season as a starter, doing so in 11 of 13 games. He fought through a serious hand laceration late in the season and suffered a foot injury in the win over Georgia Tech that will likely sideline him for the rest of the year. He snapped the football for one of the most consistent rushing attacks in the SEC and the nation’s top offense in terms of fourth-down conversions. Georgia also ranks second nationally in touchdown percentage in the red zone.

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