'Super explosive' 5-star QB picks Georgia football over suitors including Texas, Ohio State
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Georgia football is stacking elite quarterback prospects.
The latest came on Sunday with a commitment from five-star Jayden Wade, the No. 1 ranked quarterback for the 2028 recruiting class.
The 6-foot-3 ½, 190-pound Wade started this year as a sophomore at IMG Academy. He hails from Los Angeles, but made the move to the Bradenton, Fla., powerhouse program as an eighth grader.
“He’s a kid that’s super competitive,” Mike Evans, who trained Wade since he was 8 at Laced Facts Academy, told the Athens Banner-Herald. “Since he was young, he always challenged himself playing with older kids and always wanting to be the best even among older kids. A strong-armed kid and a kid that also has so much athletic quarterback with him running a 4.4 in his ninth and 10th grade year consistently.”
Wade, who announced his commitment on Rivals.com’s YouTube channel, is ranked the No. 4 overall prospect for his class by the 247Sports Composite. He becomes Georgia’s first commitment for 2028 so the Bulldogs would need to fend off other teams in the next two years to keep him in the fold.
The Bulldogs already have a commitment in this year’s class from 5-star Jared Curtis from Nashville, the nation’s No. 4 ranked quarterback recruit.
“He wants to go to a place where he can compete and have a chance to develop,” Evans said. “He just wants an opportunity to play.”
Wade picked Georgia over Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Florida Oregon and Washington.
“He scares teams with his speed,” Evans said. “He also has a powerful, strong arm with accuracy. …He’s super explosive and can score with his legs at any given time which makes him definitely a a dangerous football player.”
Wade was offered by Georgia by assistant coach Donte Williams on Christmas Day in 2023 soon after he joined the staff, Evans said. Offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Mike Bobo and senior offensive analyst Brandon Streeter, who works with the quarterbacks, have recruited him more recently.
Evans played for Williams at El Camino College in 2008 before Evans went on to play safety at Louisville.
“The energy at Georgia when we went there fits his background,” Evans said. “Super competitive, super you know, Dawgs. That whole mentality of play fits his model.”
This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Speedy 2028 No. 1 QB Jayden Wade commits to Georgia football
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