This Sentell’s Intel rep on Georgia football recruiting has the latest with the official visitors in town for this weekend.
Talent acquisition season has arrived in Athens. There’s no denying it anymore.
Georgia is set to welcome 18 official visitors to the Classic City, and it will push the Dawgs to 37 official visitors over the last two weeks. The weekend is so loaded that the Dawgs started bringing in some of this weekend’s guests a day early on Thursday night.
Georgia got two “instacommits” from last weekend’s guests.
Is there a chance of the same this weekend? Perhaps.
The view from the 600 level inside Sanford Stadium for the latest big recruiting weekend in Athens looks like this:
- 18: Total OVs
- 1: 5-star target
- 11: 4-star targets
- 4: 3-star targets
- 1: Top 50 overall national recruits
- 5: Top 100 overall national recruits
- 2: Prospects ranked among the nation’s top five recruits at their position
- 6: In-state targets
- 8: Offensive prospects
- 10: Defensive prospects
- 4: Current UGA commits
- 1: Pair of HS teammates (4-star Chancey Kennon and 4-star Tyren Wortham)
- 1: JUCO target who was originally committed to the 2023 class (Seven Cloud)
- 1: Younger brother of a current Bulldog (Ekene Ogboko and Nnamdi Ogboko)
- 1: Younger brother of a former Bulldog (Jared Wilson and Pierre Dean)
- 1 prospect committed to another school (4-star Tyren Wortham and UCF)
Here’s a little perspective to cut through all those data points.
Of those 18, DawgNation feels like to Dawgs are in a solid position to sign eight of those prospects. That number is roughly the same as last week, but not really. That would include the four current commits in town. There was only one UGA commit in town last weekend.
Georgia football recruiting: Who are the headliner official visitors?
There was some intrigue on last week’s list about the top three most important targets in town might be.
That won’t be the case this week.
The list leads off with 5-star RB Savion Hiter, and everyone else is chasing him like those poor safeties from Virginia all over his junior highlight tape. Hiter is the consensus No. 1 RB in the class for both of the national composite rankings.
The next two names are clearly 3-star JUCO commit Seven Cloud and 4-star OL Ekene Ogboko. While Cloud is a commit who has already shut down his recruiting, he has signed with Rosenhaus Sports for his representation. That’s the self-described “shark” known for swimming in the deep NFL waters, but made a big splash with the recruitment of 5-star OT Jackson Cantwell last month.
Cloud is a rare player in this class, given his ability and his age, who should be able to play immediately in the SEC.
Ogboko, as it stands now, presents the best chance for UGA to sign one of the nation’s Top 100 overall prospects for the offensive line in the 2026 cycle. The Dawgs are battling it out with Clemson, Florida, and Notre Dame for Ogboko.
Who does Georgia need to hit a home run with this weekend? That would also be Hiter. Most of the chatter nationwide has Hiter looking closest at Michigan and Tennessee for his decision, although he recently posted on his “X” account that he’s done zero interviews and has no idea where that is coming from.
What is one other name to pay attention to? The weekend vibe between 4-star Ohio tight end Brayden Fogle is one to watch closely. Fogle, the nation’s No. 9 TE, becomes very interesting for this class depending on what Georgia decides to do in the aftermath of the Mark Bowman bombshell commitment to USC last Friday.
Georgia still has a very solid commitment in 4-star TE Lincoln Keyes up in Michigan, but the program has always wanted to add Bowman and 5-star ATH Kaiden Prothro to the class.
Does Georgia still seek to add another TE to the class?
If that answer is yes, then Fogle is the most likely target to fill that role. Fogle has great respect for Georgia’s TE development. He compared it to the work that Ohio State does with its receivers on an annual basis. He also said Hartley was in touch early this week to discuss this weekend.
What does the full list look like? Check it out below.
| Player | Rankings | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 5-star Savion Hiter (Mineral, VA) | No. 1 RB/No. 17 overall | Open |
| 4-star Chauncey Kennon (Sarasota, FL) | No. 8 CB/No. 67 | Open |
| 4-star Pierre Dean (Clemmons, NC) | No. 7 DL/No. 68 | Open |
| 4-star Ekene Ogboko (Garner, NC) | No. 4 IOL/No. 69 | Open |
| 4-star Caden Harris (Brownsville, TN) | No. 11 CB No. 84 | Vandy |
| 4-star Vodney Cleveland (Birmingham, AL) | No. 18 DL/No. 143 | Open |
| 4-star Kendall Guervil (Fort Myers, FL) | No. 19 DL/No. 147 | Open |
| 4-star Chase Calicut (Houston, TX) | No. 9 S/No. 161 overall | Open |
| 4-star Brayden Fogle (Mansfield, OH) | No. 9 TE/No. 162 | Open |
| 4-star Brady Marchese (Cartersville, GA) | No. 41 WR/No. 250 | UGA |
| 4-star Dre Quinn (Buford, GA) | No. 26 EDGE/No. 263 | Open |
| 4-star Graham Houston (Buford, GA) | No. 22 IOL/No. 303 | UGA |
| 4-star Tamarrion Watkins (Rock Hill, SC) | No. 28 S/No. 342 | Open |
| 4-star Tyren Wortham (Sarasota, FL) | No. 59 WR/No. 385 | UCF |
| 3-star Kealan Jones (Marietta, GA) | No. 41 S/No. 467 | UGA |
| 3-star Zachary Lewis (Suwanne, GA) | No. 69 IOL/No. 777 | Open |
| 3-star Seven Cloud (El Dorado, KS) - JUCO | No. 1 DL/No. 1 JUCO | UGA |
| UR Fletcher Turk (Dacula, GA) | No national rankings | Open |
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