Fifteen Georgia Bulldogs were named by members of the media to the 2024 Preseason Media Days All-SEC Team.
Carson Beck, Trevor Etienne, Tate Ratledge, Nazir Stackhouse, Mykel Williams and Malaki Starks made the first team, while Dylan Fairchild, Xavier Truss, Smael Mondon, Dillon Bell and Brett Thorson all found themselves as second-team selections.
Dominic Lovett, Oscar Delp, Earnest Greene and Daylen Everette were selected to the third team.
Georgia had the most players on the first team with six. Alabama had the most total selections with 16. Texas had 13 selections.
Beck, Starks and Williams were all in Dallas for SEC Media Days and are seen as potential first-round 2025 NFL Draft picks.
With future expectations high, Beck said that focusing on what he wants to accomplish at Georgia.
“When you focus on the team and you really put other people before yourself and you are selfless and you focus on your wide receivers, you focus on the O-line, you focus on the tight ends, you focus on the defense, you focus on the team as a whole, it kind of takes all that outside noise and pressure off these individual awards and individual statistics and it puts it on, okay, let’s win this week and let’s win the next week and so on, so forth,” Beck said. “When those things happen and you can focus on the team and everybody on the team is on that same mindset, that’s when those individual kind of awards start to happen.”
Beck threw for 3,941 yards and accounted for 28 total touchdowns in his first year as a starter. He’s far from the only talented quarterback in the league, with Texas’ Quinn Ewers, Alabama’s Jalen Milroe and Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart also having cases as the top quarterback in the league.
Georgia will face all three of those quarterbacks during the 2024 season, relying on first-team All-SEC defenders Starks, Stackhouse and Williams.
Williams was listed as a linebacker prospect, though he estimates he’ll play at least 60 percent of his snaps on the defensive line.
“I like to say Mykel is a generational talent, the things that he can do,” Starks said. “He’s very, very important to our defense. We wouldn’t be the same without him. Just the type of guy that he is, I think that’s the most important thing.”
Georgia opens the 2024 season against Clemson on Aug. 31. The media also picked Georgia to win the conference.
2024 Preseason All-SEC selections
First Team
QB – Carson Beck, UGA
RB - Trevor Etienne, UGA
RB – Jarquez Hunter, AU
WR - Luther Burden III, MIZ
WR - Tre Harris, UM
TE - Caden Prieskorn, UM
OL - Tyler Booker, UA
OL - Will Campbell, LSU
OL - Kelvin Banks Jr., TEX
OL - Tate Ratledge, UGA
C - Cooper Mays, UT
DL - James Pearce Jr., UT
DL - Walter Nolen, UM
DL - Deone Walker, UK
DL - Nazir Stackhouse, UGA
LB - Harold Perkins, LSU
LB - Danny Stutsman, OU
*LB - Deontae Lawson, UA
*LB - Mykel Williams, UGA
DB - Malaki Starks, UGA
DB - Malachi Moore, UA
DB - Billy Bowman, OU
DB - Maxwell Hairston, UK
P - James Burnip, UA
PK - Bert Auburn, TEX
LS - Kneeland Hibbett, UA
KS – Alex McPherson, AU
RS - Barion Brown, UK
AP - Zavion Thomas, LSU
Second-Team
QB – Quinn Ewers, TEX
RB - Raheim Sanders, SC
*RB - CJ Baxter, TEX
*RB - Montrell Johnson Jr., UF
WR - Isaiah Bond, TEX
WR - Kyren Lacy, LSU
TE - Mason Taylor, LSU
OL - Emery Jones, LSU
OL - Kadyn Proctor, UA
OL - Xavier Truss, UGA
OL - Dylan Fairchild, UGA
C - Parker Brailsford, UA
DL - Shemar Turner, TAMU
DL - Landon Jackson, ARK
DL - Nic Scourton, TAMU
*DL - Tim Smith, UA
*DL - Jared Ivey, UM
LB - Debo Williams, SC
LB - Anthony Hill Jr., TEX
LB - Smael Mondon Jr., UGA
DB - Jahdae Barron, TEX
DB - Major Burns, LSU
DB - Andrew Mukuba, TEX
DB - Malik Muhammad, TEX
P - Brett Thorson, UGA
PK - Graham Nicholson, UA
LS – Hunter Rogers, SC
KS - Will Stone, TEX
RS - Zavion Thomas, LSU
AP - Dillion Bell, UGA
Third-Team
QB – Jalen Milroe, UA
RB - Justice Haynes, UA
RB - Ulysses Bentley, UM
WR - Deion Burks, OU
WR - Dominic Lovett, UGA
TE - Oscar Delp, UGA
OL - Earnest Greene III, UGA
OL - Marques Cox, UK
OL - Trey Zuhn III, TAMU
OL - Jaeden Roberts, UA
C - Jake Majors, TEX
DL - Tim Keenan III, UA
DL - Princely Umanmielen , UM
DL - Trey Moore, TEX
DL - Tonka Hemingway, SC
LB - Jamon “Pop” Dumas-Johnson, UK
LB - Jihaad Campbell, UA
LB - Eugene Asante, AU
DB - Domani Jackson, UA
DB - Daylen Everette, UGA
DB - Jason Marshall Jr., UF
*DB - Keon Sabb, UA
*DB - Nick Emmanwori, SC
P - Jeremy Crawshaw, UF
PK - Alex McPherson, AU
LS - Slade Roy, LSU
KS – Trey Smack, UF
RS - Keionte Scott, AU
*AP - Barion Brown, UK
*AP - Jaydon Blue, TEX
