{"id":435256,"date":"2024-11-12T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435256"},"modified":"2024-11-12T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:55:17","slug":"georgia-to-receive-visit-from-5-star-qb-elite-in-state-prospect-in-week-12","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/georgia-football\/georgia-to-receive-visit-from-5-star-qb-elite-in-state-prospect-in-week-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia to receive visit from 5-star QB, elite in-state prospect in Week 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia has a huge game this Saturday night against Tennessee that will help determine its fate for the 2024 season, and at the same time the Bulldogs will be hosting a high-profile recruit that night who could determine what happens in 2025 and beyond in Athens.<\/p>\n<p>A source told ESPN&#8217;s Pete Thamel that quarterback Julian Lewis, who is ESPN&#8217;s No. 2 overall recruit for the 2025 cycle, is going to unofficially visit Georgia on Saturday for the showdown against Tennessee. Lewis has already committed to USC and visited Colorado in October.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Julian Lewis, ESPN&#39;s No. 2 overall recruit in 2025, is set to unofficially visit Georgia on Saturday for the Tennessee game, per a source. He\u2019s committed to USC and visited Colorado last month. On3 first reported the UGA visit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UzCFFtVY0S\">pic.twitter.com\/UzCFFtVY0S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/1856428704400048461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lewis&#8217;s final collegiate destination is anything but a certainty though, as 247Sports\u2019 Tom Loy recently predicted that the Carrollton (Ga.) High 5-star stud is trending toward <a href=\"https:\/\/saturdaytradition.com\/usc-trojans\/usc-5-star-commit-reportedly-trending-toward-major-flip\/\">a flip to join Deion Sanders at Colorado.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lewis was the top player in the 2026 cycle but reclassified, so now the Georgia product is very much in play to stay in-state and head to Athens to play for Kirby Smart. Lewis has visited Georgia more than a dozen times, but he did commit to USC in August of 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lewis was the top player in the 2026 class before re-classifying. He\u2019s from Carrollton, Georgia, and has visited Georgia more than a dozen times over the years. He committed to USC in August of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/1856428708183331055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Georgia already has a commitment from 4-star quarterback Ryan Montgomery, but the Bulldogs are still recruiting a 2nd quarterback for their 2025 class. Montgomery is also expected on Georgia&#8217;s campus this weekend for an unofficial visit.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of Lewis&#8217;s high school highlights, via Hudl:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hudl.com\/embed\/video\/3\/16619589\/671182db833c9743277a3604\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia might still be in play after all for an elite quarterback in the 2025 class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269106,"featured_media":435257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435256","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-georgia-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}