For all that Brock Bowers has already accomplished in his Georgia career, this upcoming national championship game will be a first for him. He’ll be back playing a football game in his home state for the first time since he was a junior at Napa High School in Napa, Calif.

While Los Angeles is certainly a long way from Bowers’ wine country home, it’s nothing compared to the distance between Napa and Athens, where Bowers now resides.

Bowers has become not just the best tight end in college football but one of the best players in the sport. Over his first two collegiate seasons, Bowers has 1,672 receiving yards on 112 catches and 23 total touchdowns.

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