{"id":315922,"date":"2023-07-13T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=315922"},"modified":"2023-07-13T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:58:11","slug":"georgia-has-made-a-surge-in-recruitment-for-5-star-lb-justin-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=315922","title":{"rendered":"Georgia &#039;has made a surge&#039; in recruitment for 5-star LB Justin Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon is not kidding around when it comes to finding linebacker talent in the class of 2024. Over the last several days the Ducks have recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/oregon-recruits-a-pair-of-4-star-linebacker-prospects-from-california\">a pair of four-star prospects<\/a> at this position from California and they appear poised to get another from Texas that some analysts consider the very-best linebacker in this class.<\/p>\n<p>For now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/justin-williams-69988\/recruiting\/125082\/rpm\/\">On3&#8217;s prediction model<\/a> has Oregon as the favorite (58.7%) to get a commitment from Oak Ridge (Texas) five-star linebacker Justin Williams. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/n.rivals.com\/news\/three-point-stance-momentum-in-texas-mid-south-five-stars-miss-state?ga_source=cm\">according to Cole Patterson at Rivals,<\/a> Georgia (39.4%) has made a surge for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justin Williams\u00a0has been considered an\u00a0Oregon\u00a0lean for a bulk of the process, but Georgia has made a surge in his recruitment. Especially with his teammate and Rivals100 defensive end\u00a0Joseph Jonah-Ajonye\u00a0committing to the Bulldogs this week.\u00a0Kirby Smart\u00a0and former assistant\u00a0Dan Lanning will continue to battle it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jake Rowe at On3 thinks the Bulldogs have been steadily &#8220;pulling in the right direction&#8221; since a recent visit from Williams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Could UGA land the No. 1 LB in the country Justin Williams?! <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f633.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude33\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeMRowe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JakeMRowe<\/a> thinks the Dawgs are in line to land ANOTHER five-star recruit <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f436.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc36\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f436.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc36\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2OYAx9DUQ5\">https:\/\/t.co\/2OYAx9DUQ5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p0pHuQEMzp\">pic.twitter.com\/p0pHuQEMzp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Newberg (@josh_newberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josh_newberg\/status\/1678761627716554756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to Oregon and Georgia, Williams (6-foot-2, 205 pounds) has <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Recruitment\/Justin-Williams-145096\/RecruitInterests\/\">offers from 30 other programs<\/a>. He is first among linebackers according to the 247Sports composite rankings, third overall in Texas and No. 11 nationally in the class of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the Ducks have ridden a hot streak up to No. 8 in the nation in <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/2024-national-recruiting-rankings-updated-top-25-teams\">the 2024 recruiting rankings<\/a>, while the Bulldogs remain at the top spot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More football stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/?p=101512005&amp;preview=true\">Florida and Missouri among teams to recruit 4-stars this week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/high-school-football-top-ranked-team-in-each-state\">HS Football&#8217;s top teams in each state ahead of the 2023 season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In addition to Oregon and Georgia, Williams has offers from 30 other programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315924,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315922\/revisions\/315924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}