On playing young players. There is a huge difference between the Gibbs type player and most of the recruits. Most are not ready to start from day one. They need time to develop and learn to play at this level. You see this at all teams; their best players are 3rd/4th year guys plus a coupe of young studs.
UGA has a freshman QB rated about like Sims; even though they don’t have a good choice, they haven’t even thought about playing him this year. Sims shouldn’t be playing but he is the best we got.
Plenty of NFL type players sit on the bench at most schools for 1 season or at least play limited snaps.
The timing of the DL injuries might have been especially harmful coming very late in camp.