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John Milledge alum takes big national award

Each year at Florida Atlantic, Harrison Bryant has gotten a little better, or a good bit better.

Now, the John Milledge alum has the award as the nation’s top tight end as his own.

Bryant is the first player not from a power-5 program to win the John Mackey Award, as announced Wednesday afternoon. He’ll be presented with it on Thursday night’s Home Depot College Football Award Red Carpet Show on ESPNU.

Bryant leads the Owls – headed for the CheriBundi Boca Raton Bowl - with 65 catches for 1,004 yards and seven touchdowns. He opened the season with six catches for 79 yards against Ohio State.

Bryant beat out Brevin Jordan of Miami and Hunter Bryant, the other finalists, for the award.

He’ll play in next month’s Senior Bowl in Miami in hopes of improving his NFL Draft stock, which currently has him going in the middle of the draft.

The 6-5, 240-pounder had also earned a variety of team and Conference USA academic honors. He is a Sports Illustrated All-American, first-team all-conference, and was named the Pro Football Focus C-USA player of the year.

Coming Thursday

A look at the Dublin-Brooks County and Warner Robins-Buford GHSA championships.

Scoreboard

High School

Wrestling

Perry 38, Houston County 36

College

Basketball

M-Chattahoochee Valley 68, CGTC 62

Pro

NBA

Chicago 136, Atlanta 102

(Links to be added upon tech issue fix)
Peach State College FB Report

UGA: More SEC honors

UGA: Zamir White looks ahead

UGA: So does Rochester

Georgia Southern: Notebook

Peach State College BKB Report

Tech forward into the portal

Falcons Report

Ex-OC talks about his opponent

Injury report

Rookie to step up for Trufant

An honor for Koo

Around/About Georgia

CFB Hall boss leaving, honored

Braves eye another starter, maybe