Georgia Bulldog tight end Brock Bowers joined Sports Illustrated at Radio Row ahead of Super Bowl 58. Bowers says he watches a lot of tape on the two tight ends that will be playing against each other in the Super Bowl, Travis Kelce and George Kittle.
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00:00 All right, Sports Illustrated here, Bryce Butler.
00:03 I'm from Georgia, did not go to UGA, but I got probably, if not, the best athlete to
00:10 ever come out of UGA, which is saying a lot because there's a lot of great players that's
00:14 come out.
00:15 Got Brock Byrus.
00:16 How we doing, big dog?
00:17 Good, really good.
00:18 All right, so we're going into the draft.
00:20 Obviously, I mean, me watching you play, matter of fact, you wore my number, one nine, so
00:25 I love that.
00:26 But you look like a receiver out there.
00:29 Super fluid, running by guys.
00:32 Now, are you watching receiver tape or are you watching tight end tape?
00:37 Talk to me about that, man.
00:38 It's mostly tight end tape.
00:39 I love watching Kittle and Kelsey.
00:41 I'm excited to watch them this weekend, too.
00:44 They're two dudes that are just best in the game.
00:48 So now, when it comes to Travis and George, are you reaching out to those guys, getting
00:54 some advice?
00:55 Are they reaching out to you, like, "Hey, I see you, big dog.
00:57 Keep doing your thing."
00:58 Talk to me about that.
00:59 You know, not yet.
01:00 I mean, I'm hoping to get invited to the tight end university in the summer, so I'm hoping
01:04 to meet them and get to know them and just get all that stuff started.
01:08 Okay, so let's go back a little bit before you even got to UGA.
01:12 Okay, you're from Napa Valley, California, and if anybody knows, that is far away from
01:17 Athens, Georgia.
01:18 How did you get to UGA?
01:19 I mean, my recruitment process is kind of different because it was during COVID and
01:24 kind of everything was shut down in California, and I wanted to be somewhere where I knew
01:27 it wouldn't shut down if something like that happened again.
01:30 And yeah, I wanted to play with the best and win games, so it kind of worked out.
01:36 Okay, so we're going into the draft.
01:40 I know there's a lot of thought, like, "Where am I going to go?
01:43 My agent's talking to this team.
01:44 My agent's talking to this team.
01:45 I'm going on this visit.
01:46 These coaches are calling."
01:47 Who do you want to play for?
01:49 Man, it's kind of whoever wants to take me and use me.
01:52 I mean, it doesn't really matter to me, but I guess if I could choose one place to live,
01:56 it would be to stay down in the Southeast area and be in, I guess, Nashville would probably
02:00 be the number one spot for me to live.
02:03 So George Kittle, Travis Kelsey, Super Bowl week, mano y mano.
02:08 Who do you think has the better game?
02:11 Who do you think wins the game?
02:14 Oh man, I think Kelsey will have the better game statistically, but I think I got the
02:19 Niners winning it.
02:22 I think, yeah, I'm rooting for the Niners.
02:25 Okay, now who did you grow up rooting for?
02:27 Oh, you're from the Bay.
02:28 You're probably a Niners fan.
02:29 Oh yeah.
02:30 Oh my God, I'm a Raider guy.
02:32 I can't accept that.
02:34 Battle of the Bay.
02:36 Let's talk about you again for the draft.
02:39 Do you think you should be the number one pick?
02:41 There's a lot of guys saying Caleb Williams should be taken, right?
02:45 I don't think the Bears should take a quarterback.
02:47 I think they need a piece like my dog, 1-9.
02:50 What do you say to that?
02:51 That'd be sweet.
02:52 I mean, I feel like I'm a pretty low risk guy.
02:53 I mean, I'm going to show up, do my thing, just work hard, try my best, and I mean, kind
02:59 of not screw anything up, hopefully.
03:02 Okay, I want to ask you a question.
03:07 This is off the cuff.
03:08 I don't have it on the screen.
03:09 You're going into the league.
03:11 You're going to be a top five, top 10 player picked.
03:14 Most of the times that means you're going to a team that's not winning that many games.
03:18 You came from a program in which y'all did not lose any games.
03:22 I think you maybe lost one game while you were in college, two maybe?
03:25 Two, two games.
03:26 Have you ever thought about that?
03:29 Have you thought about that?
03:30 I went from USC, maybe one or two games a season, to going to Oakland, and we lost 12
03:38 games a year.
03:39 Have you thought about that?
03:40 Yeah, I've thought about it.
03:41 I mean, in the NFL, everyone's pretty equal, so everyone's like, you can't win every week.
03:47 But I mean, in high school, I went 0-10 my sophomore year and didn't win a game.
03:52 I feel like I'm kind of mentally ready for that, I guess you could say.
03:55 All right, tell us about your partnership with Auto Training.
03:58 Yeah, I mean, cars probably going to be one of my first big purchases when I get to the
04:02 league.
04:03 They're just going to help me with that process.
04:05 You don't want to focus on that stuff.
04:07 They make it easy.
04:08 Yeah, just so I can focus on football, they're just going to streamline the process and help
04:12 me out with it.
04:14 What is the first car purchase that you will make, speaking of car purchases?
04:17 What kind of car?
04:18 Will it be a Chevy guy, American made, foreign?
04:20 You look like a Chevy, American based guy.
04:22 What you got?
04:23 Ford, Ford F250, yeah.
04:24 Oh, 250!
04:25 He spent too much time in Athens, ladies and gentlemen.
04:30 Brock Bowers, best tight end in the game.
04:32 Good luck to everything that you got coming for it, bro.
04:34 Yes, sir, thank you.
04:35 Thanks so much.
04:36 That was great.
04:36 [WHOOSH]