Georgia football’s John FitzPatrick put team first, played more than half season with broken feet

ATHENS — Football is a game of sacrifice and overcoming adversity, and there might not be a better example of that on the 2021 CFP Champion Georgia than John FitzPatrick.

The game captain and starting tight end played more than half of last season with broken bones in his feet that required postseason surgery.

“He’s a guy that probably needed surgery about halfway through the year,” Smart said, speaking on FitzPatrick before any of the other UGA players at the team’s Pro Day on Wednesday.

“He chose not to have that surgery, he wanted to play out the year, he did that and did a really good job for us.”

It was a matter of FitzPatrick, a redshirt junior from the Marist School in Atlanta, putting team goals ahead of personal goals.

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