This Sentell’s Intel rep on Georgia football recruiting has a different look at the season up ahead for some of the UGA commits.
We’ve put together many roadmaps to track Georgia football recruits over the years. It is safe to say that the 2026 slate will be one of the most unique.
The two anchor commitments of the 2027 class will start their seasons off riding the bus. A lot.
There’s a UGA commit at a high school 600-plus miles away from the Atlanta area who will play two road games in the state of Georgia.
Georgia’s 2027 quarterback pledge has a new team. Yet he will likely play the toughest schedule of any commitment on the board.
5-star Jayden Wade, the 2028 quarterback commit, will play a national schedule that will pit his team against opponents from eight different states and two different continents. He could also have faced the toughest schedule when it is all said and done.
This next stat may read like fiction, it is every bit true. There’s one Top 100 commitment in the 2027 Georgia football class that is part of a high school program that has won 11 straight state championships. That’s all but unheard of.
The national record is 14 straight titles (!!!) and it looks like that future Dawg has a squad that can claim its 12th straight title at the end of the season.
If he does, then that would be the sixth state title that one future Bulldog receiver will be a part of in high school. That’s a winner’s resume if we’ve ever seen one.
Let’s take a quick lap around all of that below.
Kemon Spell and Jaxon Dollar will hit the road early and often
5-star RB commit Kemon Spell is the highest-rated member of the class. He’s the highest-rated RB set to sign with UGA since former 5-star Zamir White in 2018.
He’ll also be on the bus a lot in August and September. Spell plays for McKeesport High in Pennsylvania. That’s in the Pittsburgh Metro area. His Tigers will go on the road for the first three games of the season.
The other 5-star in the class will have a tougher spell than Spell. East Lincoln 5-star TE Jaxon Dollar will go on the road for four straight games to kick off his senior season.
That type of road tripping leads to an unbalanced senior season for both players. Dollar and Spell will each play only four home games this fall. That means there will be “Homecoming” and “Senior Night” games for both, then the home opener and just one other game.
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Tripping with Temorris Campbell
Can we talk about Mr. Campbell? Temorris Campbell is a 3-star LB commit for the Bulldogs at Carol City High in Florida.
While putting together a master plan to try and see every UGA commit in action this fall, the goal of including Campbell was going to be tough.
Until we saw the MaxPreps.com schedule for his Chiefs. In a wild anomaly, Campbell will play two of its road games within the Peach State.
Carol City will travel to Leesburg to face Lee County on August 28. His team will then trek some 640-plus miles to Loganville to face Grayson on October 2.
Campbell and his Chiefs will get the benefit of six home games this fall. He’s the nation’s No. 75 LB and the No. 917 overall prospect on the 247Sports Composite rankings for 2027.
The chance to evaluate him in person jumped up exponentially when we saw his season slate.
Big chore ahead for Colton Nussmeier
4-star QB commit Colton Nussmeier just landed in New Orleans to play for a new team earlier this month. He’s joined Archbishop Rummel in the New Orleans Metro area for his senior season.
He was ruled ineligible after an attempted move in Texas this summer. When the appeals process brought no relief to Nussmeier and his family, he opted to move somewhere close to where his Dad works.
Nussmeier’s father, Doug, just so happens to be the offensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints.
It will be good for Nussmeier. Especially since he saw his junior year diminished by nagging injuries. He played in just eight games.
He’ll be tested over and over this year. Rummel has a stacked schedule featuring seven teams that appear in Massey’s Top 25 Louisiana state rankings. There are also four of the state’s Top 10 teams on that slate.
Rummel has gone 17-8 over the last two seasons. Rivals ranks the Raiders No. 6 in Louisiana this fall. The Massey Ratings have Rummel as the state’s No. 6 team in the preseason. That also places them at No. 228 nationally.
Heavy lifting this season for Jayden Wade, too
If there’s one UGA commit who plays a tougher schedule than Nussmeier, it would have to be Wade.
Wade, who returns for his second year as QB1 at IMG Academy, will face a national schedule that will include games against teams from Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
There’s also a contest against a team based in the United Kingdom. That one will be versus the NFL Academy, based in Loughborough, England.
The 6-foot-4, 230-pound Wade is still rated as the nation’s No. 1 QB prospect for the Class of 2028.
Prized WR recruit Jamir Dean plays his game of the year tonight
When it comes to prized 4-star UGA commit Jamir Dean, there are two things DawgNation needs to know.
The first is that he’s a winner. Dean has been part of three state football titles and two state basketball championship teams for Alcoa High in Tennessee.
That’s only about five minutes outside of Knoxville.
Alcoa has also won 11 straight TSSAA state football titles. The Tornadoes look primed for a 12th this fall with Dean at the center of it.
Dean’s team also plays its “Game of the Year” for its opener with Maryville. Maryville is a larger school, but those two schools go head-to-head in a big-time atmosphere tonight.
Big stadium. Big crowd. Jumbotron. Those two communities will put everything else on pause for the game tonight. Dean is currently 2-1 against Maryville in his high school career. Those two wins have been over the past two seasons.
Want the real story on all things Dean? DawgNation traveled up to The Volunteer State earlier this summer to chat with him.
There are a few other storylines to track with the Georgia football commits this season:
- Dawg vs. Dawg, Part I: 4-star OT commit KJ Jackson will travel with his Lithonia Bulldogs on September 4 to face Lowndes. The Lowndes offensive line is anchored by 3-star IOL commitment Abram Eisenhower.
- Dawg vs. Dawg, Part II: That’s not the only commitment matchup on that date. 3-star DL commit Waylon Wooten and Grayson High will host 4-star OT commit Kelsey Adams and Langston Hughes on September 4.
- Canadians collide: 3-star DL commit Marcellus Young-Casario is part of a strong Rabun Gap front that will host 5-star Tennessee RB commit David Gabriel-Georges and Baylor School on September 4. The other wrinkle in that matchup is that Gabriel-Georges and Young-Casario are both boarding school students from Canada.
- Busy Friday: That first Friday in September is quite a busy slate. 4-star WR commit Taurean Rawlins will also travel with his Mount Vernon team to face Holy Innocents. Rawlins is expected to be followed around the field by standout Brayden Bailey. Bailey, a 5-foot-10 and 170-pound junior for Holy Innocents, is the son of Bulldog legend and NFL Hall of Famer Champ Bailey.
- Legacy test: 3-star OL commit Ty Johnson and his Lucy Beckham team will face three Top 10 teams this fall. That will include a September 11 contest with four-time reigning South Carolina state champ Dutch Fork. Johnson’s father, Travis, played for the Bulldogs when both Mike Bobo and Kirby Smart were student-athletes in Athens.
- Dawg vs. Dawg, Part III: Lovejoy EDGE Olayiwola Taiwo, a 3-star UGA commit, will travel to Langston Hughes on September 25. Taiwo will likely be matched up with 4-star OT commit Kelsey Adams early and often in that game.
- Dawg vs. Dawg, Part IV: As stated above, Campbell and his Carol City (Miami, Fla.) team will travel to Grayson to face Wooten and company on October 2.
- Halley’s Comet stuff: That’s quite the oddity, seeing two commits (Hughes and Wooten) both face two future UGA teammates during the regular season.
- Repeat bid: Legacy 2028 TE commit Asa Wall plays in the Georgia Independent Schools Association, not the mainstream GHSA. He’s a Top 200 overall prospect. His John Milledge Academy team, which is coached by his father and former UGA fullback JT Wall, is seeking a repeat state championship. The Trojans begin the year on a nine-game win streak.
- Magnolia State Dawg: 3-star OT commit DJ Dotson plays for an Oak Grove High School team that’s widely ranked as one of the Top 5 teams in the state of Mississippi this fall.
