This Sentell’s Intel rep on Georgia football recruiting has the latest with the 2025 Georgia football recruiting class that’s currently rated No. 1 nationally on the 247Sports Team Composite and the On3 Industry Rankings as National Signing Day begins.

Good morning. Welcome to the first day of the new ramped-up early signing day period. There will be three days of fun for DawgNation to follow the Georgia football program.

There will be intrigue all day long and it won’t stop until 5-star in-state DL Justus Terry is set to make his college decision on Friday at noon.

What’s the latest?

A lot has changed over the last 24 hours as rumors spread like wildfire across the message boards and chat rooms. That’s when real intel came back over the phones via voice calls and text messages.

As it stands this morning, the chances of Georgia flipping 4-star DL Kevin Wynn from FSU and 4-star LB Tavion Wallace aren’t as strong as they were a day ago.

Those two players are now both trending to sign with FSU this morning. That would be an interesting flip with Wallace from Arkansas if that does take place.

If the Bulldogs can’t flip Wynn, it means that it is even more important for the Dawgs to flip 3-star Lee County DL Jeramiah McCloud from Florida today.

There was also a very curious rumor last night about Florida making an 11th-hour run at 4-star Georgia QB commit Ryan Montgomery in this class. That was odd, but it was reported by several outlets.

As of now, there’s not a lot of legs to that. The Gators were trying to keep Georgia from signing two quarterbacks in a class for the first time since 4-star D’Wan Mathis and 3-star JUCO transfer Stetson Bennett IV.

Montgomery is from Ohio. He’s the only name mentioned above that does not play high school football in the state of Georgia.

That’s important here, given the uneven ground that the entire 2025 class has been recruited upon in the modern era in the days of name, image and likeness and big offers that are used to sway and retain current commitments.

The thinking here is that those in-state players are more likely to stick closer to home when they are in college when adversity hits and they are no longer out on the field for every meaningful snap at their position for the first time in their football lives.

These non-binding verbal commitments have never been airtight. That’s never been truer than right now. These players may be announced as signees today by their respective new teams, but things are not really official until they report early this month for postseason practices.

That said, the one thing Georgia has done to ensure maximum retention of its key targets is to focus on the homegrown in-state prospects more than ever before in the Kirby Smart era. The Bulldogs are poised to sign more student-athletes in the state of Georgia than at any other time since Smart became coach in 2016.

Check out the numbers:

That’s not just a Kirby Smart trend here either. If the Dawgs wind up signing three more native Georgians than the program currently has committed, it will make for the most in-state signees in any one class since Vince Dooley signed 24 Peach State prospects back in 1984. (!)

If Georgia flips McCloud and does sign Terry on Friday, then that will boost the number of Georgians in this class up to 23.

There have only been a few cycles dating back to 1980 that the Bulldogs signed at least 20 in-state Georgians in one recruiting class:

DawgNation went through several pieces of online data to put together that trend for the 2025 signing class.

That in-state number has also been boosted by a 3-pack of teammates from some of Georgia’s top high school programs.

Lee County

Milton High School

Warner Robins

The fact that four of those six Georgians were at one time committed to other programs shows how back-and-forth the recruiting process gets these days given the top national talent that the Bulldogs try to stock their roster with every signing day.

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SENTELL’S INTEL

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