Jenkins County High School in Millen, Ga., has an enrollment of just 382 students. Two of them are headed to Georgia to play football. They graduate on Friday and plan to be in Athens on June 4. Defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor and outside linebacker James DeLoach will join Todd Grantham’s 3-4 defense this summer. “It’s [...] - Full Story

Before spring practice, someone mentioned to Georgia sophomore Malcolm Mitchell about cornerback/receiver Champ Bailey getting in 100 plays in games when he was a Bulldog. “I’ve heard,” Mitchell said. Mitchell, Georgia’s leader in receiving yards per game last year, will be playing cornerback for the Bulldogs depleted secondary this fall. He still can be a [...] - Full Story

You recruiting nuts from the Athens area are in luck this weekend. Five of Georgia’s 2012 football signees are right in your backyard, competing at the GHSA boys state track and field championships at Jefferson Memorial Stadium. Marc Weiszer and I managed swing by there briefly on Thursday and caught up with a few of [...] - Full Story

Who says big-time college football is all consuming for players these days? Georgia linebacker Christian Robinson, tight end Arthur Lynch and snapper Ty Frix are spending nearly four weeks on a study abroad trip to Italy before returning for summer workouts in Athens. “We just ran up the biggest mountain in Cortona,” Robinson tweeted today. [...] - Full Story

JEFFERSON—Georgia fullback signee Quayvon Hicks will report to Athens on June 4 with some big expectations set for him by running backs coach Bryan McClendon. “He wants to see a high school student pretty much come in as a man,” the Pierce County product said. “We’re trying to be the best backfield in the nation [...] - Full Story

Georgia football coach Mark Richt won’t be able to resume phone calls to recruits until Monday under a two-week ban for an NCAA secondary violation the school reported after televised comments he made on signing day. The restriction from placing recruiting telephone calls extends to communicating to recruits via video conferencing on Skype, according to [...] - Full Story

Georgia’s biggest question mark heading into preseason practices will probably be its offensive line, but an impact freshman will get a chance to be the latest rookie to crack the Bulldogs’ starting lineup up front. “We’ve had some success in the past,” coach Mark Richt said. Freshman John Theus from Jacksonville, Fla., could do what [...] - Full Story

Georgia and Clemson have agreed to increase the cancellation fee for their scheduled football games in 2013 and 2014 to make it more costly for either to get out of playing the games. It would cost either school $3 million if they bailed out of the game, an increase of $2.5 million from the $500,000 [...] - Full Story

The recent guest list on a on a satellite radio show called “College Football Playbook” has included the likes of BCS executive director Bill Hancock, new Penn State coach Bill O’Brien, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly and Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher. Oh, yeah, and a college president that you might have heard something about. [...] - Full Story

There’s a reason why the Georgia football team was rated preseason No. 1 back in 2008. It was loaded with talent, particularly on offense. Consider that 10 offensive players from that team were NFL draft picks. That includes three guys that were drafted last weekend—offensive linemen Cordy Glenn, Ben Jones and Justin Anderson. Georgia coach [...] - Full Story

Hines Ward is back in Athens today after spending some time again around the Georgia football program during spring practice. The former Super Bowl MVP receiver retired from the Pittsburgh Steelers this year after 14 seasons. He lives in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs. Ward spent about 10 minutes talking with reporters prior to [...] - Full Story

The book is closed on this year’s draft. And that means that the lists of top prospects for the NFL in 2013 are already cropping up. No surprise that Georgia fourth-year junior Jarvis Jones is on there. The 2011 All-American is listed as the top outside linebacker prospect by Chad Reuter of the NFL Network. [...] - Full Story

What was a relatively quiet NFL draft for players from Georgia got hectic Saturday. Three former Bulldogs were scooped up in the first 28 picks of the fourth round after only one went on the first two days of the draft. By the time the day was done, six players were grabbed, giving Georgia seven [...] - Full Story