Brent Key said he got hurt last week and it was confirmed that he tore it and is expected to miss the 2024 season. He was in the two-deep at safety and was playing his best ball at GT so this is a loss especially on special teams and depth.

Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the update you've all been waiting for. Stay tuned for my futurecast sometime this weekend.

ATLANTA- Georgia Tech football has just two days of fall camp left after wrapping up practice on Thursday with a shorter two-hour session in shells. The Jackets will scrimmage on Saturday to end fall camp and Tech will begin preparations for Florida State next with a ten-day window before the team arrives in Ireland.

After practice defensive backs coach Cory Peoples spoke to the media with several defensive backs including Tennessee transfer cornerback Warren Burrell who spoke for the first time since joining the program in January from the portal. Veteran safety LaMiles Brooks and corner Ahmari Harvey rounded out the media session.

Peoples said the final scrimmage on Saturday will help set the depth chart in the secondary where the Jackets have several new players aiming to fill roles after head coach Brent Key overhauled the unit following a subpar 2023 season defensively.

"We are going to kind of finalize it Saturday after the final scrimmage of the fall and we will get more into our two-deep and we kind of got a thought process, but we will let it play out on Saturday," Peoples said of the two-deep situation.

Tech has three players with significant starting experience back at the cornerback spot between Harvey and Rodney Shelley who are back from last year and the addition of Burrell from Tennessee as well as Illinois transfer Zachary Tobe who started three games last year in the Big Ten.

Peoples has been pleased with how Burrell who came in January has developed over the last eight months.

"We have a lot of great depth at the cornerback position. (Warren) is grown and he has made a lot of plays for us so far this spring. He is a long, rangy, and smart guy who understands the game with a great I.Q., Warren is doing well," he said.

Shelley gives them position flexibility at the nickel spot as well and he is being mixed in with Omar Daniels who was the primary backup nickel a year ago and Rhode Island transfer Syeed Gibbs.

"Omar is doing pretty good (at nickel), you've got Shelley doing well there as well and Syeed Gibbs as well. All three of them can play the nickel spot and the good thing about those guys is they are swing guys who can go play some safety in some packages and play corner," he said. "Those three guys can all do multiple things for us at the DB positions."

The safety spots at the top are clear with Brooks and Clayton Powell-Lee as returning starters and then sophomores Taye Seymore and D.J. Moore both having a spring of experience in the defense behind those two. Tech also added Cincinnati redshirt freshman transfer Jayden Davis to help bolster competition at the safety spot for 2024.

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Peoples said he feels like the DBs have improved their communication since the spring and that is the major difference he has seen so far, more communication on the field and a whole lot more talking with the whole defense.

Peoples said that Taye Seymore has made a huge jump and he is a lot more comfortable in the defense and is much more comfortable in the defense and when you are comfortable you play faster and you can see the tempo of his game has picked up.

Peoples said that D.J. Moore made that transition from WR to CB last year and now to safety in the spring and he has also made a huge jump from the spring to now. He has great ball skills and getting those two back and adding Jayden Davis from Cincinnati from the portal has been huge for the safety position.

Peoples said they are focused on stacking days right now and there has been a lot of growth from the spring and he said the time has flown as they get ready for the season.

Peoples said the three true freshmen, Nehemiah Chandler (CB), Christian Pritchett (S) and Troy Stevenson IV (NB/CB) are trying to figure it out like any freshman at this point. He added Jayden Davis who is also very young in that mix too and he has seen some growth since fall camp started with them all as new guys.

Peoples said he is very pleased with the competition is good in the DB room and everyone is being pushed by the people behind them.

Peoples said that both Clayton Powell-Lee and LaMiles Brooks have stepped up as leaders in the backend of the defense and as they've gained experience they can use that to help lead.

Peoples said that he has a great relationship with CB coach Ricky Brumfield and they've known each other well before he got to GT and they share a lot of ideas and work together in drills so they can complement each other.

Burrell said he ended up at GT in part due to Brent Key hiring Bill Stewart and two former Tennessee assistants on the strength staff in A.J. Artis and Byron Jerideau. He said when he went in the portal he heard from Coach Stewart who was his HS coach at North Gwinnett as well as A.J. and Byron who asked him if he had thought about GT and if he would like to come over and check it out. Burrell had never been on the GT campus before that visit which he said is crazy in retrospect to him given how close he was to GT and he liked it and what Coach Key had to say and he thought the program was a school on the rise with a need at his spot so he made the call to come to GT.

Burrell said that the situation here reminded him some of the stuff he went through at Tennessee as they transitioned coaches when he was there and that rebuilding process and building up the culture and all of that.

Burrell said that getting to the NFL wasn't a huge driver in his decision because he pointed out there are DBs drafted from everywhere, it was more about the opportunity to play and put good work on tape.

Burrell said that Ahmari is his dog and the whole DB room are guys who would go to bat for. He loves how they welcomed him with open arms when he got here. Ahmari and Warren have been very close since he got to GT.

Burrell said the game in Ireland is amazing to him and he didn't think there would be that much interest in Europe for American college football, but the game is sold out and he thinks it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience you tell your children about.

I asked Harvey about his rep as a trash talker and he said that is just how he grew up, he said he talks trash playing chess, ping pong, golf or basketball. That is just what people do where he is from and he brings that on the field.

Harvey said he thinks the entire WR room is a tough cover and he jokingly referred to Eric Singleton Jr. as that 10.3 guy, he shouted out Malik Rutherford, Chase Lane, Leo Blackburn as also being guys tough to cover.

Harvey said he had to step up and be more of a leader in the CB room and that is a new role for him but he has embraced it and he is trying to mentor the young guys like Nehemiah Chandler and Cedric Franklin. He sees a lot of himself as a younger player in them and he wants them to be better players and better men.

Harvey said that bringing in Zachary Tobe amped up the competition in the CB room and he reminds him of himself when he came over from Auburn and there are no days off in the CB room now, he feels like they will be one of the best CB rooms in the ACC if not the entire country.

Harvey said he thinks the team is very focused right now in camp on details and they are just fine-tuning minor details instead of having to learn so much like last year. He said that getting those fine details down is what creates margin and success.

Harvey said the trip to Ireland will be his second time leaving the US (he went to Niagra Falls once) and it is a huge blessing because where he is from most people don't even leave the city he grew up in let alone go to another country.

LaMiles Brooks said that camp has been amazing and it is one of the toughest points of the season actually but this has been one of the most fun camps for him and he really likes the identity the team is building and his unit is building right now in his last go around.

Brooks said now him and CP Lee are looked at like they looked at Jay King last year and CP Lee is like he was last year as the older leaders and having the confidence to speak up and he is seeing that from Lee and he fully understands the defense and the young guys know the defense and feel like they can ask them questions.

Brooks said they are talking way more before the play is even signaled understanding the situations pre-snap, the formations, looks and then adjusting to those variables as the final picture takes shape pre-snap. He said they also talk about what happened on the previous play now to make sure they are on the same page.

Brooks said the secondary has embraced the shark identity and they will make a shark signal on their helmets with their hands and they smell blood in the water and they are hunting for anything out there.

Brooks said he isn't worried about people he knows at FSU or any of that stuff anymore, this is his third time playing them and he is looking at it as just another game and nothing greater than that.

Brooks said that Tyler Santucci as a DC is good at predicting situations as a playcaller and getting them in the right packages and calls when things change on the fly like subs happen or they get a strange look from the offense.

Brooks said he likes the helmet comms and how quickly he can get the signal and process it live.

Anyone down to play? Thinking 14 teams max.

As for Georgia Tech: Call me crazy, but I see good things happening for the Yellow Jackets. Heck, I see them upsetting Florida State.

(Here we pause for you to scream, “That’s not crazy – that’s IMBECILIC!”)

(Done with the screaming? Good. We move ahead.)

Yes, I believe FSU was mistreated by the CFP. I also believe it will take a while for the Seminoles to get over what happened on Selection Sunday and what then happened in the Orange Bowl, which saw their third-stringers lose to Georgia by 60.

Tech plays FSU in Dublin, and not the Dublin in Georgia or Ohio. This game will be staged in the auld – Irish for “old” – Dublin, which is an ocean away. Preseason consensus holds that the Jackets are a pretty good team with a really bad schedule, but what if some big names on that schedule aren’t as big as advertised?


Tech is coming off a season that could have been much worse – the Jackets mounted epic comebacks versus ranked opponents Miami and North Carolina, each of which was complicit in its collapse – but also much better. Flip home losses to Bowling Green and Boston College and 7-6 becomes 9-4. Whoa, Nellie.

Brent Key has done well to move beyond the #404Takeover. In Haynes King, Tech has a real quarterback. If Tech plays any defense at all, good things could happen. Come Aug. 24, the world will watch to see how FSU comes off its difficult winter. The world will see the season’s first upset.

I’m not sure how high Tech’s ceiling is; I’m also not sure how good the rest of the ACC will be. Should the Jackets start 1-0 – and not fall to 1-1 by losing to Georgia State – I can indeed see them winning nine games. Maybe that really is imbecilic, but it’s not like I’m picking Tech to beat Georgia.

Though, come to think of it, Tech did give Georgia a game last season. Hmm.

Enjoyed writing this one. From one interview, I can tell that Warren is a very smart kid and seems to have seamlessly become a big part of the defensive back group and the team as a whole.

I missed this earlier in the week, but it was announced recently that the Baylor (Tenn.) vs. Rabun Gap-Nacoochee (Ga.) game in Chattanooga will be nationally-televised on ESPN on Sunday, Aug. 25 at 1 p.m.

That means Georgia Tech offensive line commits Jimmy Bryson (Baylor) and Justin Hasenhuetl (Rabun Gap) will have a chance to perform for a bit bigger audience than usual as their teams battle each other.

I've got it on my calendar to make the short trip from Rome to see this one in person and catch up with both of the Jackets' commits, but I just wanted to pass the news along for Tech fans who want to check it out on TV.

I stopped by Fellowship Christian on the way home from Georgia Tech practice and media availability today, and got to talk to Josh Petty as well as his Class of 2026 teammates CJ Givers (RB) and Jonathan Granby (Ath.) after their practice.

I'll have a story coming on Petty tomorrow as he approaches his decision day on Monday. (He said a lot of good things about Georgia Tech and Brent Key and not much about Florida State FYI.)

Then I'll have stories on Granby and Givers in the coming days. Both are good-looking ball players and have Georgia Tech high on their lists. Tech is actually Granby's first D-1 offer.

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Scary situation up here last night just a few miles from where I live on Rockmart Highway (SR 101).

One of the Rome football team buses was involved in a wreck on the way home from their scrimmage vs. Rockmart and ran off the road. Thankfully just minor injuries reported and everyone is going to be alright physically. I'm sure that's going to take a toll mentally though for all the people involved.

Say a prayer for those players, coaches and families. Good people involved in that program all around.

Latest @Rivals recruiting intel: Buzz around Georgia Tech, Alabama, N.C. State, LSU and South Carolina trending for several top targets

Scoop: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-recruiting-intel-alabama-georgia-tech-n-c-state-lsu-buzz

The Evan Haynes commitment to UNC shouldn't be a surprise to JOL subscribers. The Jackets are going to be very picky with the remaining skill slots and positions remaining in the class. Here is a look at who else remains in play for the Jackets' 2025 class.

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Opening up a thread for this. Round 1 has started this evening. The schedule is:

Rounds 1-2: 7 p.m. ET Sunday on MLB Network, MLB.TV, MLB.com
Rounds 3-10: 2 p.m. ET Monday on MLB.com
Rounds 11-20: 2 p.m. ET Tuesday on MLB.com

Below are some details about GT affiliated players (2024 recruits + draft eligible GT players). If you have access to other sites that have additional info on these players draft prospects, DM me and I'll add it.



2024 GT Commits
(only included those who seem possible to go in the draft)







GT Draft Eligible Players

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Good afternoon everyone! As we quickly approach football season here on the Flats, I wanted to share some information about a Select-A-Seat event we will be hosting at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Sunday, August 11th from 10am to 2 pm. If you are not already a season ticket holder and are interested about learning more about how to secure season tickets for this upcoming season this is the perfect event for you to look at some available options. You will have the opportunity to look at availabile seats throughout the stadium with one of our ticket sales reps, and chose the best option for you! Season ticket holders get their seats for all home games, which this season includes the game at MBS against Notre Dame, access to season long parking, exclusive benefits, a dedicated ticket representative, and much more. If you are interested in attending the event and learning more about season tickets, please RSVP at the link below!


It is going to be an exciting season for the Yellow Jackets and it's the perfect time to become a season ticket memeber if you are not already. If you have any additional questions about the event or season ticket options please let me know!

Cory Peoples

LaMiles Brooks

Warren Burrell

Ahmari Harvey

Thought it would be good to make a thread for those who plan to meet up at the pubs and they can set times/days and what not.

The 3 pubs that have taken on the task of being the home for GT fans are

- Toners
- The 51
- Ryans Beggars Bush

ATLANTA- Georgia Tech continued to work on Wednesday as the Jackets gear up for the final scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday. After Wednesday's session, offensive line coach Geep Wade and offensive linemen Joe Fusile, Keylan Rutledge and Jordan Williams spoke to the media about camp and how the offensive line has looked.

Tech has been rotating left tackles since the spring. Corey Robinson got banged up in spring ball and true freshman Jameson Riggs got the bulk of the snaps in the spring with the first-unit offense. In fall camp, redshirt junior Jordan Brown has stepped up in camp this fall and Wade has been impressed with Brown's performance at the position. For Brown a year of adjusting and getting healthy following his transfer from Charlotte, he has been able to thus far in camp make the most of his opportunities to get into the two-deep for the Jackets.

"He has been very consistent," Wade said of Brown's rise on the depth chart in camp. "He got hurt a year ago when he got here and he has worked his way back. He is a warrior every day and he is one of those guys I told Coach (Buster) Faulkner) you trust him to do it right out there and if he gets beat, he got beat, but he is very consistent and he has earned himself where he is at right now."

With Robinson, Brown, starting senior right tackle Jordan Williams and swing lineman Ethan Mackenny going into his second year, the Jackets have a variety of veteran options at the tackle positions to mix with younger players like Riggs or redshirt freshman Patrick Screws Jr. once the season rolls around.

At the guard spot, Tech returns starting left guard Joe Fusile while adding former Middle Tennessee standout Keylan Rutledge to the mix at right guard. Rutledge spent the whole offseason recovering from a foot injury suffered in a car accident back in December before he arrived on campus and Wade has been ramping him up in camp to take over that right guard job the only spot where Tech is not returning a starter from last year.

"I know he was banged up but Keylan just fits in with our guys and I trust Joe and I trust Keylan and I knew he would be back," Wade said. "Let's just leave it like that."

Battling for the backup guards spots will be a mix of linemen including Ethan Mackenny who can play guard or tackle on both sides of the line and started multiple games a true freshman at left tackle last year. Wade said that Mackenny has continued to grow and get bigger and stronger while creating some position flexibility on the line for him.

"Ethan has put on the weight we asked him to do because he came in here and had to play even though if you look back he got here on June 1 and got thrown to the wolves and I don't think he could even breathe until week nine. It is so hard on those kids and he is the type of kid that is very conscientious and he has played a couple of different positions for us and is kind of our swing guy," Wade said. "We've got to hone in and find a spot for him, but he is doing well and he is very talented and we want him to play at a high level this year."

The guard rotation could include Benjamin Galloway who was a backup guard last year but didn't play as a true freshman and sophomore Brandon Best who was the backup center a year ago and played some guard in limited reps in three games.

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Wade said that have Coach Mo (Allen Mogridge) has been huge for the OL now that he can coach hands on in practice alongside Wade. He said Mo is an old friend and they have a great apport with each other and share that OL coach language and are on the same page with everything. He said the one issue he has to be careful with is overworking the OLs with them both there. He said he has really focused on making sure he keeps things simple for the OL as well with fewer checks and calls so they can just play ball and keeping it simple for the OL.

I asked Wade about how things are going with Harrison Moore who has played all five offensive line spots since arriving at Tech last January and he said right now he is playing multiple spots inside at guard and center and he has the mentality they want from an OL. He doesn't back down from anything and is ready for a challenge. His weight is up and he has done everything they've asked him to do and every rep matters to him and he wants to become better every play and every practice.

On battling complacency, Wade said they watch film from last year and he spent the offseason talking to other O-line coaches and zooming guys in to talk and focused on getting better in their zone or you have to have that mentality that you want to be a winner and you might not win every rep, but if you have that mentality you are going to be a winner in the long run. He has seen that mentality from his guys so far and he is excited about it.

On Kai Greer playing catch up after not enrolling early, he said nowadays with kids coming in early it makes it really hard on guys to come in and fortunately they don't need to rely on Kai at this moment, but he is really working hard. Wade said he sleeps at Tech sometimes and Kai will wake him up in his office and he has to tell Kai to go sleep in, but he is eager to learn and that is exciting.

Wade said the competition has been great in camp and now they have to whittle it down to the guys they are comfortable paying in a game. He feels like they have way more depth, but now it is about honing in on the guys who are going to play and finding those roles.

Wade said it took them time last year to find the team's identity offensively and in the back half of the year they figured out they are a run-heavy team and it is about putting the team in a better spot and putting the OL in a spot to have success there and making it simple for the guys to just line up and play ball. Then you can put on the different lipsticks over it.

Wade said he loves Jess Simpson and has known him over 20 years and used to go to Buford and just hangout with Jess when he was recruiting and get nothing else done for the day because he is such a great coach and dude. Having him and Kyle Pope there to coach the DL has made his OL much better.

Joe Fusile was up first from the OLs and he said things clicked for the OL in the UNC game and he thinks when they are mashing them downhill that is when the team found their identity and the OL found their identity and that was how it is supposed to be and feel. They've been building on that since that game.

Fusile said it has been a blessing to play with Robinson, Riggs and Brown next to him and they are all great players working their tails off and knowing they have some depth is a game changer for the OL.

Fusile said they can't get complacent on the OL and have to keeping building, the DL are playing great so that is a big challenge as well to go against.

Fusile said the young guys are buying in and understanding what it takes to play at GT and they recruited the right type of kids and they've fit right in.

Fusile said that Makius Scott is the toughest matchup for him in practice and they've had some great battles.

Fusile said this year is about staying hungry and they've found something that works on offense and they did a good job later in the season last year as an OL and now they have to build upon that and stay determined, and disciplined and keep building on that mindset.

Rutledge said that he knew Buster and Geep from recruiting so when he went into the portal after Rick Stockstill got fired at MTSU they reached out and GT was his first offer and they were all over him and it just built from there to his commitment to GT.

On his comeback from the foot injury, he said that had to attack it day-by-day and he is grateful to the Lord above that the car accident he was in wasn't worse and he is very thankful to the staff here and the trainers for helping him rehab and get back to being 100%.

Rutledge said the scheme here is different from MTSU who ran a straight Air Raid gap-scheme and here it is more of a zone scheme, but football is football and you have to have the right mindset and the adjustment has just been the plays and playbook. The footwork has changed and some of the hat placement, just technique things.

Rutledge said he doesn't have a preference on run blocking vs pass pro, he just likes hitting people.

Jordan Williams referenced sandpaper as being a descriptive for the OL.

Williams said that it being his final college season hasn't hit him yet, he is just making the most out of it every day.

Williams said they want to be the #1 rushing team in the country and that is the goal and the mindset and what they are aiming for.

Williams said that Jamal Haynes hits the hole fast and they love how hard he runs and that he knocks people's helmets off and is so physical.

Williams said that Rutledge has been a big addition to the OL room and he enjoys playing next to him and he loves to hit people.

Williams said the OL bond over eating and they go to a place called Cypress Street Pint and Plate to bond. They also play some NCAAF video games.

Williams said that Coach Key's mindset as an OL coach is all over the program and that mindset of imposing your will on your opponent is big. They want to be like sandpaper and make the opponent feel them and feel those body blows that add up in the game.

Williams said his speed is too low in the CFB video game and his strength is too low and they have him listed as agile which he likes but he wants to have strength added to that. He said them putting Eric Singleton Jr. at 92 speed clearly shows no one ever watched them play that made that game, but he loves the offense in the game.

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