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Justin Shaffer

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Experience: 1 year

Height: 6-4

Age: 25

Weight: 330 lbs

College: Georgia

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Career Stats

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Biography

FALCONS (2022)

  • Spent the season on the Falcons practice squad.

COLLEGE

  • Played five seasons (2017-21) at the University of Georgia.
  • Appeared in 51 games (27 starts) for the Bulldogs.
  • Started all 15 games at left guard for Georgia as a fifth-year senior in 2021, earning second-team All-SEC honors for the national champions.
  • Started all 10 games – nine at left guard and one at right guard – for Georgia in 2020.
  • Started 26 games at left guard and one at right guard in his college career. 

PERSONAL

  • Attended Cedar Grove High School in Ellenwood, Ga.
  • High school teammate and first cousin of Falcons' 2022 third-round selection OLB DeAngelo Malone
  • Won the 2016 Georgia 3A state championship with Cedar Grove and earned first-team all-state honors as a defensive tackle.
  • Graduated with a degree in sociology from Georgia.

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