ATHENS, Ga. -- National Signing Day is like Christmas Day for Georgia’s coaching staff, when they finally lock up players they often spent years recruiting to join their program. Short of signing day, one of the most impactful events in that recruiting process comes today, when dozens of high-caliber prospects arrive in Athens for “Dawg Night.”

Nearly all of the Bulldogs’ committed prospects and many more whom the coaches are evaluating will participate in drills this evening at Sanford Stadium -- providing comparisons that defensive coordinator Todd Grantham said are integral to the coaches’ determination on the players that best fit the program.

“There’s a lot of things that go into evaluating a guy,” Grantham said Friday afternoon. “It’s athletic ability, it’s how they take coaching when you’re out there and you’re directing them, it’s the tools that they have right now, just raw skills. And I think what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to take each individual guy and you’ve got to say from a vision standpoint, ‘What can this guy develop to be?’

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