Relentless, tenacious and hungry.
Meet the Wolfpack, a trendy new nickname Georgia’s core of NFL-ready outside linebackers are running with this season.
“It came from us just being boys just sitting there one day watching documentaries about wolves and nature,” Lorenzo Carter said after Wednesday’s practice according to the Athens-Banner Herald. “We saw one about wolves and how they go for miles just hunting and stalking their prey. We literally do the same thing all summer, all week before game, we stalk our prey.
“Once it’s time to attack, we go and as the wolfpack we go for the quarterback as one.”
Georgia’s three-headed monster of Jordan Jenkins, Leonard Floyd and Carter feasts on opposing quarterbacks and combined for 15.5 sacks a season ago. Jenkins is the eldest wolf and leader of the pack, Floyd’s arguably the most ferocious and Carter debuted with the clan as a freshman last fall with several feisty performances down the stretch.
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Georgia defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt has tried to get creative during fall camp, experimenting with Floyd at multiple positions including star so that the Bulldogs can get Jenkins, Carter and the potential 2016 first-round pick on the field at the same time.
“Leonard is going to play some inside linebacker, he’ll work some at outside linebacker. He’ll work some at our star position in nickel. We’re very fortunate to have a guy with the ability to multiple things like that,” Pruitt said recently to the Ledger-Enquirer. “The good thing about Leonard is he can make everybody else right. Until we figure out the other pieces to the puzzle he’s going to do all three.”
