Recruiting has gone national, which means the challenge of signing the best in-state talent is exponentially more difficult than, say, 30 years ago.

With that in mind, we’re building a six-man all-star in-state team of sorts for each program in the SEC, looking for more recent recruits with more options who chose to stay home.

Here are the best, by position, Georgia kids who became Bulldogs.

Quarterback — David Greene

Out-of-towners Matthew Stafford and Aaron Murray don’t qualify, and Charlie Ward, Cam Newton and Deshaun Watson chose to play elsewhere.

Most programs couldn’t offer a next-best-case as strong Greene, who arrived from suburban Atlanta and left with 72 career touchdown passes — 14th in SEC history.

Greene isn’t Georgia’s career leader — Murray is with an SEC-best 121 — but his total would rank No. 1 at seven other SEC programs.

Running back — Herschel Walker

We’re trying to stay recent, and Nick Chubb is the latest, greatest homegrown Bulldog, but there’s only one Herschel.

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Walker, the pride of Wrightsville, led Georgia to the 1980 national championship as a freshman.

He ran for 1,891 yards (without bowl stats) in 1981, and his SEC record stood until this season, when Derrick Henry and Leonard Fournette both passed him.

He won the Heisman the following season, his final season.

Walker remains the SEC’s career leader with 5,259, an NCAA record for a three-year career.

Most schools wait a decade or more to retire a number. Walker was so dominant Georgia retired his No. 34 … in 1985.

Wide receiver — Terrence Edwards

Edwards played quarterback at Washington County High, just up the road a bit from Walker’s place in Wrightsville.

Georgia turned him into a receiver, and he turned into a playmaker.

Edwards left in 2002 and still holds the program records for career touchdown catches (30), receptions (204) and yards (3,093). He still ranks in the top 5 in the SEC in all three categories.

Defensive lineman — David Pollack

Pollack is almost unrecognizable now as a popular college football analyst. At about 220 pounds, he looks more like a defensive back than the three-time All-American defensive end he was for Georgia during the early 2000s.

Pollack starred at Shiloh High in Snellville, 30 miles east of Atlanta on the way to Athens.

Injuries robbed him of an NFL career, but Pollack remains Georgia’s all-time sacks leader with 36, which still ranks fourth in SEC history.

Linebacker — Boss Bailey

The youngest of Georgia’s three Bailey boys from Folkston, Boss finished what Champ started.

Boss, like Pollack, was an All-American when Georgia crushed Arkansas 30-3 to win the SEC Championship in 2002. That was Mark Richt’s second — and best — season as the Bulldogs finished 13-1 and ranked No. 3 in the country.

Jarvis Jones, an All-American in 2011, also was homegrown but started his career at Southern Cal before transferring.

Defensive back — Champ Bailey

A folk hero from Folkston, Bailey was a modern athlete with a throwback game. He starred on offense, defense and special teams.

In 1998, Bailey was named college football’s best defensive back and also scored five touchdowns. Bailey was an All-American in 1998, but many Bulldogs fans thought he should have won the Heisman, too.

In his spare time, set long jump records for Georgia’s track team, all before become a first-round draft pick and 12-time Pro Bowler in the NFL.

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