Want to attack every day with the latest Georgia football recruiting info? That’s the Intel. This rep offers the first DawgNation read on 5-star sophomore RB Jordon Davison. He ranks as the nation’s No. 1 RB and the No. 14 overall prospect for 2025 on the 247Sports Composite ratings.

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The nation’s No. 1 RB prospect for the 2025 class is quite interested in Georgia. That’s a way to get the attention of any DawgNation reader.

Jordon Davison is also the starting RB for the No. 1 ranked team in the nation on MaxPreps.com.

He’s ripped off 1,301 yards in 11 games. That’s an average gain of 9.2 yards per attempt. He has a 99-yard run this season among his 14 touchdowns.

Perhaps the most intriguing number is the one that follows here for Georgia football fans: He was in Athens for the Tennessee game. That trip marked the fourth time he said he has been to check out the ‘Dawgs already.

He’s been to Athens three times this year alone with trips in April, June and then earlier this month.

That’s quite a lot for any 5-star prospect in any cycle. Especially one in the 2025 class. The other very intriguing detail to consider here is that Davison lives out in California.

That’s a great early start on a relationship with the No. 14 overall prospect in the 2025 cycle.

Davison said he’s been to Ohio State about two or three times, he said. He also has been to USC for a couple of games. A couple of his teammates play there.

“I’ve been to USC like four times,” he said. “Probably just as much as out to Georgia.”

What have the ‘Dawgs done to grab the attention of an elite prospect this early in his process?

“It really boosted them for me once family got over there,” Davison said. “That’s coach [David] Hill.

Davison was referring to Georgia player connections coordinator David Hill. He considers Hill to be family.

Hill was also one of Darnell Washington’s coaches at Desert Pines High in Las Vegas when he was coming up in the 2020 class. He had worked as an assistant at his alma mater for over a decade helping place approximately 100 student-athletes at the college level.

He took a job on the support staff in Athens back in July. According to an article in The Las Vegas Sun, he had sought out a job in college football for over a decade.

Hill was so determined to start a coaching career that he went month-to-month on his rental lease for the past five years so he could relocate at a moment’s notice for a chance to work at the college level. He was willing to work as an intern or even as a janitor to get his foot in the door.

His name was been brought by several recruits from the west coast after their visits to UGA since he was hired. He has quite a reputation. Hill had been named to the Under Armour All-American Game coaching staff multiple times over the years.

“He’s been helpful in me building a relationship with Georgia,” Davison said. “We had a relationship before he got there so it is real. Not about anything just with recruiting.”

Davison said he knew Hill to be a good dude before he rose to the national status he holds now.

“He has always shown me love when I used to meet him at the football camps out there,” Davison said. “He used to say I was one of the best players if not the best player out there. It just showed he had respect for me and I built respect for him when nobody really knew about me.”

The ‘Dawgs offered Davison back in March of this year.

The 6-foot, 206-pound Davison came in on the Friday before the Tennessee game. He got to spend time with the coaches on Friday and went to the game on Saturday.

“That was a crazy experience,” he said.

That was his first game in Sanford Stadium. He said he’d never seen a football game quite like that.

“That was different,” Davison said, who aims to be a running back coach in college one day. “The only thing that would kind of come close to it was the Notre Dame and Ohio State game this season.”

What did he like best about that recent visit?

“Just being around the recruits,” he said. “Just meeting and seeing new people and talking about high school football and competing.”

He found a way to engage in an interesting debate with a couple of Buford High School players at the UT game. That’s the No. 1 team in Georgia and the No. 2 team in the nation for MaxPreps.com.

“There were a couple of Buford guys talking,” he said. “Talking like we don’t play nobody at Mater Dei. I want to play them.”

He said Georgia’s offense fits what he is looking for. What’s the biggest way the ‘Dawgs helped their shot with Davison on that visit?

“They just really showed me their culture,” he said. “I know what they are going to do over there.”

His favorite part was late in the game.

“It was when it started raining and the fans were still tuned into the game,” he said. “Like super tuned in. It was crazy and really something.”

What does he like best about Georgia now?

“There are a few things,” he said. “Man, that’s a hard question. They have running backs.”

Does he think Georgia is “RBU” now in college football?

“They are for sure one of them,” he said. “You got to throw ‘Bama in there.”

Davison is very well-traveled. He’s visited Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Texas and Texas A&M so far this year. That will include the trips he made over the summer.

5-star sophomore RB Jordon Davison starts for the No. 1 ranked high school team in the nation right now. He's already visited UGA three times this year alone. He lives out in California. (Courtesy photo) (Courtesy photo/Dawgnation)

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Jordon Davison: This is one motivated 5-star prospect

Every player has a “why” that motivates them to excel. Davison is no different.

“My why is just to push for my family,” he said. “I’ve watched my Mom go through a lot of stuff. I know that for me my why is really because of my Mom. To get my family in a better position in life.”

The young man doesn’t communicate like a sophomore in high school. He was able to clearly articulate just how much he appreciates his mother Darlene Davison and his stepfather Jerry Bevineau.

“I look at it without my Momma I wouldn’t be here,” he said. “I’d like to give a big shout-out to her and a big shout-out to my stepdad because he stepped up in my life and that benefitted me. I want to give a big thanks to him.”

He wants to carry that football as far as he needs to in order to be able to take care of his family one day

Davison doesn’t shy away from the attention that comes from starting at Mater Dei as a sophomore. Or from being ranked so highly.

That’s why he picked an intriguing jersey number.

“I wear the number zero,” he said. “This is the first year you can wear that number in California. I chose zero because I just feel like it reminds me that a target is always on me. Just perform at your best the whole time. I just look at the number zero as a target.”

Like a bullseye?

“Yep,” he said.

That’s a bullseye that nobody gets to hit? Is that it?

“Nope,” he said. “Yep.”

He works to be seen as a balanced all-around back. He wants to be seen as an effective inside runner that can also make plays as a receiver.

“But when it gets down to it, I am going to get mine,” he said. “I feel like I am a go-getter back.”

His favorite call is to run the counter. He feels like he is producing to the standard he needed to in his first year as a starter.

“My sharpest tools are I feel like I’m an all-purpose back,” he said. “I can catch the ball. They don’t really use me in the passing game because I have so many great weapons around me. But when it comes down to it, I can catch the ball real well. I feel like I have really shown my ability to run between the tackles this season.”

He’s right about that passing game at Mater Dei. The prolific high school offense that sent former Georgia QB JT Daniels to college ball currently has four receivers with at least 450 yards this season.

That group will include a trio of 3-star receivers in different classes on his team.

He also had a 95-yard touchdown run this season. That was when he had to make a couple of defenders miss. Davison also scored the game-sealing touchdown against fifth-ranked St. John Bosco this season.

It means something to him to be ranked as the nation’s top RB prospect for his class.

“For me, it matters,” he said. “It just gives me the extra push to stay on top. I chose the number zero because I knew I was going to be at the top. Just me personally, that’s just how I think. So when you are at the top, you are always going to have a target on you. Everybody is going to be watching you like ‘who’s this?’ or ‘how good is this dude really?” and I just feel like it gives me a push to be better every day as a player and as a person.”

“It means something to me.”

He said he pushes himself. Daily.

“I do the extra,” he said. “I go to every extent. Even when I don’t want to do it. I wake up and push myself to do it because I know the success that is going to come from it.”

The dream is vivid, he says.

“I want to be the best in everything,” he said. “At all levels.”

His uncle, Jerone Davison, played RB at Arizona State and for two seasons in the NFL with the Los Angeles Raiders. That’s a good family history.

Jordan carried that on by scoring a touchdown the first time he touched the ball in high school.

5-star sophomore RB Jordon Davison just took another big visit to check out UGA. (Instagram) (Jeff Sentell/Dawgnation)

Jordon Davison: What is he looking for in the perfect school?

What do the ‘Dawgs need to show him to end up signing him in December of 2024?

“Somewhere that I can develop,” Davison said. “Somewhere that I can see myself at in the future. Somewhere that is going to set me up for something after football.”

Does Georgia fit what he is looking for?

“They fit well,” Davison said. “They develop their backs. They have got a good history of developing their backs and there are just good opportunities over there for me to play early. Especially coming in at the time I am going to be coming in.”

“Those guys that they are going to have in front of me blocking are huge.”

Can he see himself leaving the west coast to play across the country in the SEC?

“Yeah,” he said.

He brings up his mother in that discussion. He said his Mom would be coming with him.

“It doesn’t make a difference with me where I go,” he said. “It would be anywhere that is the best fit.”

He said he has a “good relationship” with running backs coach Dell McGee.

“He just says that I have been looking good this year,” Davison said. “He’s said I’ve gotten way better than before at the start of the season. He can tell I am developing as a player. It is always good to hear that from a coach.”

He called it a “blessing” to play for such a strong high school program. He made it clear that his faith. matters to him.

Davison starts out every game with the same ritual.

“I just have to pray to God before every game,” Davison said. “Like three or four times before the game. I will pray in the locker room. Then we pray together. Then we will go out and before we even break, I pray. I pray once we break. I will go to the 20 [yard line] and do my little prayer before the game. I will pray for my health and for my teammates and their health.”

Check out some of his sophomore highlights below.

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