Georgia football fans have been ecstatic about the opportunity to watch heralded running back Zamir White run the ball in red and black for quite some time now.
In August of last season, White unfortunately tore his ACL in a non-contact play.
This coming season, assuming White is good to go, he should play a large role in Georgia’s offense, especially with the departure of Elijah Holyfield.
On Tuesday, Smart said White will be out for the entirety of spring drills while he recovers from last August’s injury.
“Zamir is coming back, doing really well, but he won’t be doing spring practice other than doing some stuff on the side, doing some running,” Smart said. “He’s done a lot offseason conditioning but he won’t be out there or cleared to go to practice.”
During White’s senior season at Scotland High School in Laurinburg, North Carolina, he suffered his first ACL tear, making last offseason’s injury that much harder to overcome for the former five-star recruit.
“Any time you have a non-contact ACL, and then you have a second one, you have to be careful,” Smart said. “When that happens, it makes you wonder if the kid can progress as fast as he did last time. He’s running really well, he’s just not going to be involved in he scrimmage. I probably won’t know until early fall camp. He’s been rehabbing really well.”
As for running back James Cook, who suffered an ankle injury that held him out of the Sugar Bowl, Smart said the younger brother of the Minnesota Viking’s Dalvin Cook is good to go after having surgery on it.
Smart updated the remainder of Georgia’s injury report:
These players will be out…
DL Michail Carter
LB Rian Davis
TE Ryland Goede
RB Prather Hudson
DL David Marshall
LB Trezman Marshall
DL Julian Rochester
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