Georgia football: JJ Holloman can blow up the Dawg offense

Is Georgia football wide receiver JJ Holloman emerging as the next big time pass catcher to step up for the Bulldogs? If he is, his timing is great.

At the start of the summer, the Georgia football team needed one more high quality wide receiver to round out its offense. When Demetris Robertson gained eligibility for 2018, it appeared the Dawgs had their man.

Maybe not.

Maybe they had him all along.

Against South Carolina, Georgia sophomore JJ Holloman had one catch for 15 yards, doubling his season total and bringing his career total to three. Against Middle Tennessee, Holloman added three more catches, one for a touchdown, to go over 100 yards on the young season.

Bringing more size and speed to Georgia football

Could Holloman be what the vet ordered for this Bulldog receiving corps? If you agree with Murff Baldwin’s video break down of Holloman’s skills, you see stars in Holloman’s future.

At six feet two inches and 200 pounds, Holloman replaces the size the Bulldogs lost on the outside when Javon Wims exhausted his eligibility.

“He’s also a guy who’s got good size, a very physical, strong kid. Physically, he’s probably ready to play.” Michael Clark, a regional recruiting analyst for Scout.com told Saturday Down South about Holloman in 2017.

A year stronger and wiser

After sitting out the last eight games of 2017 with a foot injury, Holloman’s a year stronger now. He also knows what he’s doing and what he’s supposed to do.

“I think the biggest thing he brings is the toughness factor,” Smart said to Saturday Down South. “I think one of the things that stuck out on his tape, everybody talks about the catches and the sides, but he’s physical. That’s the demeanor that we need, a guy that’s going to go out there and hit you and hat you up. I really like that about the guy.”

Holloman is also fast, clocking a sub 4.5 second forty-yard time at The Opening before his senior season at Newton County High School.

Made to order

Holloman caught Georgia football head coach Kirby Smart’s eye last spring. “He doesn’t look around at the other guys. He’s focused on, ‘I’m going to give you all the effort I can.’”

A tough, hard-working physically elite player, Holloman sounds like he was ordered out of the Kirby Smart Mail Order Catalogue.

“He’s focused on, ‘I’m going to give you all the effort I can.'”

Holloman came to Georgia in 2017 as a top 150 national recruit, a top 20 wide receiver, and a top 15 recruit in the state. If he emerges this week a regular in the Georgia football wide-receiver rotation, it’s just in time. The Dawgs go on the road to face Missouri this Saturday and probably the only offense the Dawgs will face that could entice Georgia into an offensive shootout.

The Dawgs will need offensive coordinator Jim Chaney’s offense loaded when the Tigers and Bulldogs tee it up in Columbia.