UGA Recruiting: 2023 Class Superlatives – The Kirby Smart Owns Me in Recruiting Award




This is another that could go a couple of different ways, but James Franklin of Penn State gets it this year. Georgia signed two former Penn State commits in Yazeed Haynes and Joshua Miller, while also beating out the Nittany Lions for Anthony Evans. Just for good measure, Fran Brown made sure to keep Daniel Harris away from them. Kirby Smart and company just took whoever they wanted from Penn State this year and there’s nothing they could do about it. It’s like another movie that we all know and love, with Kirby Smart as Deebo and James Franklin as Red. Kirby taking recruits like Deebo was taking chains: