Georgia Seems To Have Explosive Answer In Zachariah Branch

The Georgia Bulldogs enter the 2025 season with plenty of questions around the offense. However, they've seemingly gotten an answer this spring in the form of Zachariah Branch.

The Georgia Bulldogs are have completed 10 of the 15 allotted spring practices, including the first spring scrimmage. We've learned quite a bit about the Bulldogs to this point. One of the players we had perhaps the most questions about was wide receiver and USC transfer Zachariah Branch.

Branch spent his first two years in college at USC under head coach Lincoln Riley and now he and his brother are in Athens to complete their college careers. Branch has already been mentioned among one of the team's more vocal on offense, and sources have raved about his playmaking ability.

The makeup of Georgia's wide receiver room seems to have changed overnight. Dillon Bell and London Humphreys are the most experienced weapons returning from a year ago, the Vanderbilt transfer who's just in his second spring on campus, and Bell. The rest of the room is brand new. Though nobody in the building provides the potential type of weapon that Branch can ultimately be.

There's no way of avoiding the fact that this Georgia program has struggled with explosive playmaking over the last year and a half. The back end of 2023's season, Ladd McConkey and Brock Bowers were so injured they seemed to be shells of the same two people that shattered rookie records in the NFL this year. In 2024, the Bulldogs led the nation in drops, but beyond that were 51st in 40+ yard receptions.

As the offense transitions into the Gunner Stockton era, it's an offense that needs a weapon like Branch that can be explosive immediately. Sure, Branch can get open downfield and will make plays explosively in that fashion; however, his ability to be a dynamic weapon with the ball in his hands allows this offense to create explosive screen opportunities.