{"id":181724,"date":"2023-01-09T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nfl-draft-prospects-to-watch-in-college-football-national-championship\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:17:06","slug":"nfl-draft-prospects-to-watch-in-college-football-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nfl-draft-prospects-to-watch-in-college-football-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Draft Prospects to Watch in College Football National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monday’s college football championship between Georgia and TCU is a showcase for some of the best prospects entering this year’s NFL draft (and also for Stetson Bennett IV). If you’re curious which of the players in Monday’s championship will be awkwardly hugging Roger Goodell in April and then dominating in the Sundays to come, here is a guide to Monday’s game.<\/p>\n

Jalen Carter, Defensive Tackle, Georgia<\/h3>\n

Georgia had one of the best defenses in the history of college football in 2021, allowing just 10 points per game. Three Georgia defensive linemen were drafted in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft, tied for the most first-rounders from a single defensive line since the common draft era began in 1970. One of those defensive linemen, Jordan Davis, cracked the top 10 in Heisman voting. Another Bulldog, Travon Walker, went first overall to the Jaguars. And yet the best player from that Georgia defense just might be Jalen Carter, who will be anchoring the line for Georgia’s title defense.<\/p>\n

Carter doesn’t have wild stats (just six sacks in college). He also hasn’t played a ton of snaps because of Georgia’s depth in 2021 and Carter’s ankle and MCL injuries in 2022. But what he lacks in big stats he makes up for in big plays. Carter is big, fast, and powerful. He crashes opposing offensive lines less like a defensive tackle and more like Pikachu using lightning strikes in Super Smash Bros.<\/em>. Ironically, perhaps the best play to demonstrate Carter’s power came while he was playing offense. Against Arkansas in 2021, Carter subbed in as a fullback and blocked three different defenders like he was a city bus plowing through an intersection of golf carts.<\/p>\n

His background is typical legendary football player stuff: five-star prospect, ranked by 247 as one of the top three recruits in his class from all of Florida. He went to the same high school as Hall of Famer Warren Sapp, and Sapp himself said that Carter was better in high school than he was. Carter seemed to enjoy doing Odell Beckham Jr. circus catches until his coaches demanded he stop playing skill positions (though he did have to play cornerback in a game in high school once). <\/p>\n

there are videos<\/a> of Jalen Carter as a teenager rocking high school kids half his size. But the funniest part is he still produced those videos in college football this season. In the SEC championship game against LSU in December, Carter picked up LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels like he was carrying his coach off the field\u2014except it was the opposing quarterback during the game<\/em>\u2014and then, while still holding Daniels, held up his finger to display no. one.<\/p>\n

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