Following the exit of Len’Neth Whitehead from the Georgia football roster on Monday, the Bulldogs made a new addition to the running back room the same day in the form of a legacy name. Gannon Hearst, the son of Bulldog legend Garrison Hearst, has joined UGA as a walk-on for the 2024 season.
Gannon Hearst transferred to Georgia from Limestone College, a small Division II school in Gaffney, South Carolina. He had a small amount of playing time in 2022, when he accrued 84 yards on five carries. In 2023, Gannon recorded eight tackles. He played high school football at Greater Atlanta Christian School in Norcross, Georgia.
His father Garrison Hearst spent three years with the Bulldogs, rushing for 1,547 yards and 19 touchdowns along with 324 receiving yards and two touchdowns in his final year in 1992. He finished third in the Heisman voting that year and was selected third overall by the Phoenix Cardinals in the NFL draft. Hearst was recently nominated for the College Football Hall of Fame’s 2025 class.
Georgia currently has six scholarship tailbacks on their 2024 roster, those being Trevor Etienne, Roderick Robinson, Branson Robinson, and freshmen Chauncey Bowens, Nate Frazier, and Dwight Phillips Jr.