First, let me apologize for being a bit slow on the jump with the Jared Curtis commitment today. It's my brother's birthday tomorrow and we spent today as a family playing golf and are going to dinner here in a bit. Obviously, didn't expect Curtis to pop today. That's my bad, but shout out to Lance for knocking out a story while also at baseball.
I've thought Georgia was in good shape for Curtis ever since I interviewed him in January. At the time, he said he wanted to commit in February. But several other things in his recruitment - I know there was a trip to Ohio State he didn't get to take because of weather, for example - seemed to have slowed things down some.
But now Curtis has secured his spot in Georgia's 2026 class. He is the first commit in that cycle and will now go about building it around him. I'd bet that he spent some good time this weekend recruiting Zykie Helton to join him as his center in the class.
As we know, Helton's teammate is Julian Lewis. Matt Zollers is also out there, having recently set a commitment date of April 4.
I don't believe Curtis would scare off any of the 2025 guys. These things usually don't work where guys scare off other guys in the class ahead of them. If either Lewis or Zollers doesn't want to come to Athens because of a guy coming in a year behind them, well, I'm not sure if that's the mindset you want in your program anyway.
Zollers and Lewis are the two any-time takes in the 2025 class. Zollers is of course slated to make a decision sooner with the commitment announcement in a couple of weeks.
I think the Zollers race is too close to call right now. But I'd say Georgia has the ball in its court by having the last visit, and a visit that is roughly 48 hours before Zollers' commitment at that.
As for Lewis, your guess is as good as mine. I haven't been able to talk myself into him coming to Georgia yet. We'll see how things go in the coming weeks.
So to sum this all up -Curtis is a great add and a fantastic way to start the 2026 class. I don't, however, think it has a whole lot of bearing on how things shake out for the 2025 quarterbacks.