Earnest Greene III
Georgia#147 overallScouting Report
The pass protection held while everything else strained. Earnest Greene III was a four-year starter at St. John Bosco in Bellflower, California, a four-star ranked as high as the No. 2 interior offensive line prospect nationally, a 2022 All-American Bowl participant who led his school to the CIF Southern Section Division I semifinals. After redshirting in 2022, he seized Georgia's starting left tackle role in 2023 and started all 14 games, earning First Team Freshman All-American honors from The Athletic and a spot on the SEC All-Freshman Team while anchoring a line that led the SEC and ranked seventh nationally in sacks allowed at 0.93 per game. He moved to right tackle for 2025, started the nine games his back allowed, and gave up six pressures with no sacks. The Ole Miss tape showed the whole player, protection and push together, the version Georgia expected for a full season. The rest of the year told a harder story. The back injury cost him games and visibly drained his drive blocking, which collapsed to the bottom of his career range, and the program moving a younger teammate onto the blindside reads as its own quiet evaluation. With below-average timed athleticism and shorter arms, his margins were always technical, and a compromised core ate directly into them. He returns to Athens for a fifth year at left tackle with a medical file to clean and the run-game power to restore.
NFL Comparison
Of his 20 closest coming out: 2 stars, 6 starters, 10 backups, 2 didn't stick.
Jordan Morgan technical tackle with length questions; Blake Fisher pass-set reliability over drive power; Matt Goncalves swing-tackle floor
Draft Movement
Up 9 spots since Jun 8
Strengths
- Six pressures allowed in nine starts, steady protection on the right side
- zero sacks allowed despite a season spent managing a back injury
- three years of SEC starting experience across both tackle spots
- top-50 recruiting pedigree out of the country's premier prep program
- the Ole Miss tape showed the two-way game intact when healthy
- started all 14 games as a redshirt freshman at left tackle
- anchored a line that led the SEC and ranked seventh nationally in sacks allowed at 0.93 per game
- First Team Freshman All-American from The Athletic and SEC All-Freshman honors
Weaknesses
- Run blocking collapsed to the bottom of his career range in 2025
- back injury cost him games and visibly sapped the drive power
- short arms and a slow stopwatch for life on the edge
- moved off the blindside for a younger teammate, a telling depth-chart verdict
- medical file will drive the evaluation as much as the tape
- margins are technical rather than physical, so any strength loss shows immediately
- nine starts in 2025 is an incomplete season to grade
College Stats
2022: redshirt; 2023 (RS Fr): 14 starts at LT, First Team Freshman All-American (The Athletic), SEC All-Freshman, line allowed 0.93 sacks per game (7th nationally); 2025 (Jr): 9 starts at RT while managing a back injury, 6 pressures and 0 sacks allowed; returning to LT for 2026
College Market Value
Our model prices him at $997K on the open college market, built from production, pedigree, role and Georgia's program money. No credible deal has been reported for him this season.
Every P4 player priced, math public: College players & NIL · Roster spend
Measurables
Awards & Honors
2023 First Team Freshman All-American (The Athletic) and SEC All-Freshman Team; 2022 All-American Bowl selection; four-star recruit ranked as high as the No. 2 interior offensive lineman nationally