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Former Georgia DL Trenton Thompson still pursuing a dream and a football career

After seeing the reports that former Georgia linebacker Davin Bellamy was re-signed to the playoff-bound Houston Texans practice squad this week, I was wondering what his former Bulldog teammate and fellow 2018 free agent Trenton Thompson was doing.

Thompson was the USA Today Defensive Player of Year coming out of Albany (GA) Westover Comprehensive High School in 2014. The previous year, he was Rivals’ Junior of the Year. He was the highest rated recruit in the country and the subject of a ferocious recruiting battle among Auburn, Alabama and Georgia. The centerpiece of Mark Richt’s class that year, the 6’4″, 280-pound defensive lineman had stardom written all over him and the expectations were sky high.