Georgia football O-line commitment follows father's path to Bulldogs
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Georgia football has landed a commitment from an offensive lineman whose father played for the Bulldogs 30 years ago.
Ty Johnson, a 3-star prospect from Mount Pleasant, S.C., announced his commitment on social media on Saturday March 21.
His father Travis Johnson lettered for the Bulldogs in 1996 in Jim Donnan’s first season as coach and worked as a center. He was teammates with Georgia coach Kirby Smart and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo.
Ty Johnson is rated the nation’s No. 42 offensive tackle prospect and the No. 471 overall prospect by the 247Sports Composite. He plays at Lucy Beckham High School.
“Since Day One that he came in, he’s a guy that worked for everything,” Jamal Smith, Johnson’s high school coach, told the Athens Banner-Herald. “He’s a guy that’s very, very humble. He knows his best is yet to come.”
The 6-foot-5, 300-pound Johnson is entering his third season as the Lucy Beckham starting right tackle.
“He’s a competitor,” Smith said. “He’s very physical. I’d rather calm guys down then to have to speed them up. After the whistle, he’s driving on contact. He’s just trying to finish plays. He’s gotten several excessive penalties because he’s trying to finish plays. We kind of get mad at him during the game, but we’re looking at it and he’s on his guy, driving his guys until he can get his guy into the ground. It’s like. ‘Ooh, Good Lord, we’ve got something right here.'”
Johnson picked up a South Carolina offer this year and Georgia offered on Jan. 17. Virginia Tech and North Carolina were among other offers, according to On3.
“To commit to Georgia, it is surreal,” Johnson told Rivals. “There was never any pressure for me to commit there, but to make that call and commit was a surreal feeling. It is crazy to think about committing to Georgia. I came from no offers to over 20 offers, and now I am committing to the school I grew up dreaming of playing for.”
Johnson is the seventh commitment in the class and the second offensive lineman. The other is four-star offensive tackle Kelsey Adams from Langston Hughes.
This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Three-star offensive lineman Ty Johnson commits to Georgia football
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