The Georgia Bulldogs had just one player make the 2025 preseason Walter Camp All-America team. Walter Camp, which is the nation’s oldest college football has just a first- and second-team.
Surprisingly, Georgia punter Brett Thorson made the first-team. Thorson’s inclusion is not shocking because of his level of skill, but because he is recovering from knee surgery after he suffered a knee injury (to his non-kicking leg) in Georgia’s 2024 SEC championship win over Texas.
“He (Brett Thorson) won’t be ready at fall camp, but we think he’ll be ready by the first game,” said Kirby Smart back in April. Smart has not confirmed the exact injury Thorson suffered, but it is suspected he tore his ACL. If Thorson returns for the start of the 2025 college football season, then he will have returned to action in less than 10 months. If Thorson is unable to play, then sophomore Drew Miller, who played in Georgia’s Sugar Bowl loss to Notre Dame, is expected to start.
AP named Thorson as a second-team All-American for his excellent 2024 season. Last year, Thorson averaged 47. 6 yards per punt and pinned opponents inside the 20 yard line on 22 different occasions. He had a career-high 18 punts go over 50 yards.
Thorson is expected to be part of an elite Georgia special teams unit in 2025. The Bulldogs return starting kicker Peyton Woodring and long snapper Beau Gardner.
Woodring made 21 of 23 kicks in 2024 including nine of his 11 attempts over 40 yards.
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