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The narrative for Georgia's skill players after two games was depth. Eighteen different players had caught passes. Eight had found the end zone. The question in Fayetteville was whether any of that would show up against an SEC secondary once the run game had already done the damage. Craig Dandridge answered it. Early in the fourth, with Georgia already up 31-3 and the look finally in man, play-action sold the box. Dandridge won the post, caught it in stride, and found another gear. Sixty-one yards. First career touchdown catch. Starters were still on the field. That is the same freshman we called the smoothest playmaker in the wideout room last week. This was the first conference snap that matched the sentence. The rest of the menu still showed up. Lawson Luckie's 33-yard catch set up the opening score, and he later scored from 2 yards out with Ryan Puglisi in — his first touchdown of the season, the fifth different Georgia tight end to find the end zone in 2026. Savovie White-Helton moved the chains on fourth-and-2 and third-and-4 before Bowens' third rushing touchdown. Cowens finished three times and was the closer when Wilson handed the offense a short field. That distribution is not an accident of a bad Arkansas defense. It is how Mike Bobo and Kirby Smart have built this offense. Perimeter speed, a tight end room that keeps scoring, a back who finishes, and now a freshman who can take the top off when the coverage is wrong. "Yeah, he works really hard," Smart said of Dandridge following Saturday's win. "Craig is very smart and very intelligent. He's savvy. He plays fast. He catches the ball and he runs after the catch. He made a great catch on a bubble pass that probably shouldn't have caught. And then he caught the big over and broke a tackle. So we tell our guys all the time, if you catch the ball well and you break tackles, you're gonna get touches." The two non-conference games showed Georgia could keep starters fresh and still produce. The SEC opener showed the same thing. Puglisi marched the backups into the end zone against a lot of Arkansas starters still on the field. Defenses lack the film to load the box and bracket one player when Bowens scores three times, and Dandridge takes one 61 yards. Coordinators have to account for entire formations. That is what makes play-action dangerous. That is the signature of a personnel-rich system. The caveat is obvious: Arkansas is not Oklahoma. The real test of tighter windows starts next week. Still, a freshman's first touchdown catch going for 61 yards in a conference road game — after the run game had already put the thing away — is one of the strongest early indicators that Georgia's offense is built to survive the league's best defenses rather than leaning on one irreplaceable piece. The ball found the open man. Dandridge was the open man. That is the clip that goes on the next scout tape.