As a high school senior, he was a two-star recruit, the 1,856th best college-football prospect in the nation, according to one composite ranking. When he transferred from Tulsa to Georgia in 2016, he remained a far-below-the-radar player.
But Georgia thinks so highly of safety J.R. Reed now that he was one of three players representing the Bulldogs at SEC Media Days on Tuesday.
Reed envisioned it working out this way all along.
“I bet on myself,” he said, “and I knew I could do it.”
Click here for the full story. It originally appeared on AJC.com, and it was written by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tim Tucker.
