While watching the game this weekend, it occurred to me how few originally HS recruited WRs we have making plays for us. So wanted to go back and look at our last handful of classes to see how it panned out.
2020
Ladd McConkey
Jermaine Burton
Arian Smith
Marcus Rosemy
Justin Robinson
Pretty great class. Ladd was obviously great, MRJ was solid and contributed his entire time here. Arian took some time but has made a big contribution this year and of course had the huge catch against Ohio St.
Burton appears to be a dummy but made some big plays and contributed to a national title winning team.
Robinson was the only real miss in this class.
2021
Jackson Meeks
AD Mitchell
AD was a big contributor in his two years here and made some of the most memorable catches in recent UGA history.
Meeks never did anything here but is having a pretty big season at Syracuse.
A small class with a 50% hit rate.
2022
CJ Smith
Cole Speer
Dillon Bell
De'Nylon Morrissette
Outside of Bell, this is a disaster of a class.
2023
Anthony Evans
Tyler Williams
Yazeed Haynes
Evans looks like he might contribute but another bad class of WRs overall.
So the big takeaway for me is that in the '20 and '21 class, we had 5 out of 7 signees become significant contributors.
'22 and '23 we have maybe two out of 7 that will be contributors.
Last years class has some promise with Tuggle and Sacovie and we look to have some good verbals for this year (Roldan, Taylor and Williams as a hybrid).
This has forced us to try and plug the gaps with portal guys which has been a very mixed bag for us so far.
2020
Ladd McConkey
Jermaine Burton
Arian Smith
Marcus Rosemy
Justin Robinson
Pretty great class. Ladd was obviously great, MRJ was solid and contributed his entire time here. Arian took some time but has made a big contribution this year and of course had the huge catch against Ohio St.
Burton appears to be a dummy but made some big plays and contributed to a national title winning team.
Robinson was the only real miss in this class.
2021
Jackson Meeks
AD Mitchell
AD was a big contributor in his two years here and made some of the most memorable catches in recent UGA history.
Meeks never did anything here but is having a pretty big season at Syracuse.
A small class with a 50% hit rate.
2022
CJ Smith
Cole Speer
Dillon Bell
De'Nylon Morrissette
Outside of Bell, this is a disaster of a class.
2023
Anthony Evans
Tyler Williams
Yazeed Haynes
Evans looks like he might contribute but another bad class of WRs overall.
So the big takeaway for me is that in the '20 and '21 class, we had 5 out of 7 signees become significant contributors.
'22 and '23 we have maybe two out of 7 that will be contributors.
Last years class has some promise with Tuggle and Sacovie and we look to have some good verbals for this year (Roldan, Taylor and Williams as a hybrid).
This has forced us to try and plug the gaps with portal guys which has been a very mixed bag for us so far.
