Matthew Stafford doesn’t think Georgia’s offense has to go back to utilize some of the packages they ran early last season just because Trinton Sturdivant is lost for the season with multiple ligament damage in his left knee.

He doesn’t believe Georgia needs to gameplan to protect its offensive line like it did last season when the Bulldogs were breaking in a group that included Strudivant, Clint Boling and Chris Davis.

“I think it was that and a mixture of the fact that we were kind of putting in a new offense last year,” Stafford said Tuesday. “We’re a season in this offense with a year under our belt—a year and a half really—I don’t think it really should affect us much at all.”

I reached former Georgia center Fernando Velasco today to get his thoughts on Sturdivant’s injury.

I ran some of his comments that you can find in my Sturdivant story online later tonight and in the Wednesday paper, but here’s one quote from him that I didn’t run in my story:

“It’s a tough task for a true freshman in this league playing left tackle. He went against Derrick Harvey (of Florida), Quentin Groves from Auburn last year. Those guys were high draft picks. He held his own.”

On a happier note for Georgia fans, I also spoke today to Arthur Lynch-Fontaine, the tight end commitment from Massachusetts, who gave Georgia a verbal commitment when he visited campus a few day ago. He didn’t reveal his decision publicly until today.

Interestingly, he said he’s trying to get his name legally changed to his mother’s maiden name so by the time he gets to Georgia he might be simply Arthur Lynch.
He’s from Southeastern Massachusetts between Cape Cod and Providence, R.I.

“I want to be able to get away for the next four or five years of my life instead of staying around close to here,” he told me.

Lynch-Fontaine only had 10 catches last year, but those numbers should rise because his team had a tailback that’s now at UConn that is second in rushing in Massachusetts state history.

Georgia keeps moving their recruiting north. Wonder if there’s a guy on their radar in New Hampshire or Maine?