{"id":28160,"date":"2025-06-30T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28160\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:44:16","slug":"bulldogs-nab-2026-4-star-over-ohio-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28160\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs nab 2026 4-star over Ohio State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia football<\/a> is ending an epic June by topping Ohio State for a four-star recruit. The Bulldogs secured one more college football recruiting<\/a> win before the calendar flips to July.<\/p>\n

Georgia landed elite 6-foot-4, 260-pound defensive lineman PJ Dean Monday. Hayes Fawcett of On3 shared the Buckeyes were in the final running. So was Georgia’s Southeastern Conference rival South Carolina. But Dean fired off this message after committing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA dawg always finds his way home,\u201d he shared via Fawcett.<\/p>\n

Dean adds to a fast-growing 2026 recruiting class in Athens. Again, head coach Kirby Smart<\/a> and his staff are aggressively putting a bow on their ’26 class for the summer. Especially with universities everywhere getting the green light to host official visits in June now.<\/p>\n

Georgia grabbed new accolade on recruiting trail\"GeorgiaJoshua L. Jones \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ImagesArticle Continues Below<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs and Smart’s staff hit a new accolade during the final weekend of June.<\/p>\n

James \u201cJ.J.\u201d Johnson arrived to Georgia Sunday<\/a> before Dean’s decision. Johnson enters the class as the nation’s top-ranked defensive lineman. But that handed UGA this new claim per Fawcett.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorgia is the only school to land TWO No. 1 Ranked Recruits at their respective positions in the \u201826 Class,\u201d Fawcett posted on X (formerly known as Twitter).<\/p>\n

That’s because quarterback Jared Curtis became the first five-star pledged to Georgia. Curtis chose the Bulldogs in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, one SEC rival caught up to the Bulldogs on the five-star end. Alabama now boasts a national-best three five-star commits<\/a> as of Monday. Xavier Griffin boosted the Crimson Tide class by choosing \u2018Bama Sunday. The linebacker even heads to Tuscaloosa as a former USC commit. But Griffin additionally becomes an in-state loss for Smart and and the Bulldogs \u2014 because he hails from nearby Gainesville, Georgia.<\/p>\n

But Georgia is still putting together stout results on the trail. Including beating Texas and Michigan for four-star Chace Calicut<\/a>. Fellow four-star wide receiver Craig Dandridge turned down three SEC rivals for the Bulldogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgia football is ending an epic June by topping Ohio State for a four-star recruit. The Bulldogs secured…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[7854,1318,24286,24287,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-28160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football-recruiting","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-georgia-football","11":"tag-kirby-smart","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114774505134282813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}