{"id":776715,"date":"2026-07-21T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776715\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:04:23","slug":"georgia-rb-dante-dowdell-suffers-serious-injuries-in-atv-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776715\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia RB Dante Dowdell suffers serious injuries in ATV accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia<\/a> running back Dante Dowdell<\/a>, who transferred this offseason from Kentucky<\/a>, was involved in a serious ATV accident recently and is being treated for injuries, Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart confirmed Tuesday at SEC Media Days.<\/p>\n

Dowdell is being treated at Shepherd Center in Atlanta, a hospital specializing in spinal cord and brain injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He’s injured,” Smart said. “We don’t know when his return will be. I don’t know the specifics of it, to be honest with you. It was a recreational vehicle, and he had some serious injuries.”<\/p>\n

Dowdell was injured during a visit home in Picayune, Mississippi.<\/p>\n

“He’s out of the really tough range, but as far as his complete health and coming all the way back, I don’t know what that looks like in terms of this year,” Smart said.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2, 227-pound tailback had 112 carries for 560 yards and three touchdowns for Kentucky last season as the Wildcats’ second-leading rusher. Dowdell was expected to be one of Georgia’s top threats behind returning starter Nate Frazier<\/a> this fall, but his status for a return remains unknown.<\/p>\n

Dowdell is playing for his fourth team after initially signing with Oregon<\/a> before transferring to Nebraska<\/a> and Kentucky. He was an important signing for the Bulldogs’ backfield, which lost Roderick Robinson to the transfer portal and Josh McCray<\/a>, who exhausted his eligibility,<\/p>\n

“He’s just a tremendous kid [with a] great family,” Smart said. “We’re very supportive of them. Our players have been up there to see him. It’s a really tough deal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgia running back Dante Dowdell, who transferred this offseason from Kentucky, was involved in a serious ATV accident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1607,322860,331126,331127,399,6341,6606,569,3349,8020,239020,398,396,397,2806,12695,2232,5693,14123,99],"class_list":["post-776715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football","tag-dante-dowdell","tag-dante-dowdell-atv-accident","tag-dante-dowdell-injuries","tag-football","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-georgia-football","tag-kentucky","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-kirby-smart","tag-nate-frazier","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nebraska","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-sec-media-days","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}