Christian Robinson’s teammates at Georgia accept taken to calling him “Shemar,” adage he bears a affinity Shemar Moore, an amateur on the TV appearance “Criminal Minds.”

“I don’t watch it,” Robinson said, laughing. “I’ve yet to amount out who that is.”

Stephen Morton/Associated Press Linebacker Christian Robinson, right, is accepted to be a baton on the Georgia aegis this season.

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That may still be OK. In a ages or so, it may be added important that Robinson begins searching like Akeem Dent.

During the aboriginal anniversary of practice, Robinson and Marcus Dowtin accept been alive as the first-team central linebackers, two key spots in a revamped Bulldogs defense.

Riding a bike on the ancillary has been Dent, the chief and arresting captain whose attendance was declared to bland the alteration to the 3-4. Instead, Dent’s cachet for the Sept. 4 opener is in agnosticism afterwards he underwent toe surgery.

The two central linebacker spots are key in the arrangement of new arresting coordinator Todd Grantham, who came from the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys’ two central linebackers endure year, Bradie James and Keith Brooking, ranked 10th and 14th, respectively, in the NFL in tackles.

They aswell accumulated for 5 sacks, and little else. Still, Robinson and Dowtin both anticipate the 3-4 will accord them a lot added freedom.