Tennessee football’s marquee matchup against Georgia is less than 24 hours away as the SEC rivals prepare for a matchup with major SEC Championship and College Football Playoff ramifications.
With kickoff a day away, that means that the Friday night availability report is officially out. The availability report is new to the SEC this season and it is affectively an injury report. Before each SEC game, both teams have to release the report every night starting on Wednesday night and going until 90 minutes before kickoff on Saturday.
Both Tennessee and Georgia are very banged up entering the matchup. The Bulldogs have injuries both along the offensive line and at running back. For Tennessee, all eyes revolve around quarterback Nico Iamaleava, who is with the team in Athens, but there’s a number of other meaningful injuries including receiver Dont’e Thornton.
Friday night has been the defining night for Tennessee on the availability report this season with whatever has been on that report staying the same for the game day report.
With that, let’s take a look at the official Tennessee-Georgia Friday night availability report.
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Tennessee Availability Report
OUT
- DB Jourdan Thomas
- LB Keenan Pili
- LB Edwin Spillman
- RB DeSean Bishop
- OL Vysen Lang
Tennessee Notes
Some very noteworthy changes for Tennessee on its Friday night availability report. Both quarterback Nico Iamaleava and receiver Dont’e Thornton were removed from the report and are good to go against Georgia on Saturday night.
Both players were listed as questionable on the first two days of the availability report after suffering injuries and not finishing the game against Mississippi State last week. Iamaleava has been playing his best over the last few weeks while Thornton is Tennessee’s top receiver.
Backup offensive lineman Vysen Lang has been ruled out after being listed as questionable on the first two availability reports this week.
Georgia Availability Report
OUT
- RB Roderick Robinson II
- RB Branson Robinson
- DL Joseph Jonah-Ajonye
- RB Trevor Etienne
QUESTIONABLE
- WR Anthony Evans III
- RB Cash Jones
- OL Micah Morris
Georgia Notes
There are no changes on Georgia’s availability report from Thursday to Friday night. The Bulldogs are down top running back Trevor Etienne and reserves Roderick Robinson and Branson Robinson.
Nate Frazier is Georgia’s top running back but third stringer Chas Jones is questionable for the game. The Bulldogs will be incredibly thin at running back if Jones can’t go.
