‘Prehab’ and camp has Georgia’s Earnest Greene ready for 2025

Georgia had Earnest Greene penciled in as a left tackle at the start of 2024. Injuries derailed the season for Greene. He missed three games with a shoulder injury last season. Greene started nine of the 11 games he played.

Monroe Freeling appears to have the foothold at left tackle after a late-season surge, though he too suffered an injury that required offseason surgery.

Greene has made the move to right tackle ahead of 2025. That move doesn’t change a lot for Greene. Playing offensive line is the job at Georgia.

“I just feel like we’ve gotten a lot better,” Greene told reporters on Thursday. “I just feel like if you’re playing an offensive line, it’s called offensive linemen for a reason. Some people are only tacklers. Some people are only specific parts of the line and stuff like that. But I just feel like it shows versatility, and you can play both sides of the ball, and you can block somebody. You can block somebody, I feel like.”

Earnest Greene’s agenda for scrimmage number two

Georgia is already one scrimmage into camp. There is another one on tap for Saturday. Greene is a veteran at preparing for a college football season now; this is his fourth year in college.

Scrimmages and camp as a whole are what a veteran uses as a crescendo and to build the connection that a unit needs to start a season. That is where Greene’s mindset is as Georgia sits 16 days away from taking on Marshall in Sanford Stadium.

“I always just talk about reps and it takes reps to build camaraderie and good chemistry and everything,” Greene said. “And I feel like we’ve gotten a lot of that leading up to now. So now it’s just about making sure everything molds together the right way. This time of year, compared to scrimmage one, you know, it’s just about making better checks, sometimes getting some better plays, certain coverages or pressures and stuff like that. So it’s just making the whole thing come around full circle and trying to tighten up everything you can going into Saturday.”

‘Prehab’ vs Rehab

Greene spent the offseason working to make sure he’s physically prepared for 2025. The expectation is that there will be nicks and bruises along the way in a football season.

Greene prepared in a way that will hopefully keep him on the football field and away from catastrophic injuries.

“Playing football, nobody’s ever going to be healthy, especially playing in the SEC with the physical brand of football that we take pride in playing here at Georgia,” Greene said. “So, you know, you’ll always be knick-knack and banged up. But as far as off-season, it was just making sure I stayed on top of a prehab and not a rehab, just being proactive about making sure everything feels good and everything, keeping everything on track and on target. Keep moving so there are no setbacks.”