The Duke football program keeps succeeding in one state on the 2025 recruiting trail, and it’s not North Carolina.
The Blue Devils aren’t doing poorly in their home state by any means, they have a three-star quarterback from Burlington. However, if fans look at Duke’s 21 commitments for the cycle as of Sunday afternoon, a third of them come from Georgia.
The Duke football team has seven commitments from the Peach State, including wide receiver Jaimon Solomon, who committed on Sunday morning. Gerritt Kemp, the Blue Devils’ other receiver in the class and the team’s highest-rated offensive commit, also comes from Georgia.
[autotag]Manny Diaz[/autotag], the first-year head coach in his first full recruiting cycle, also snagged two defensive backs, a defensive lineman, an offensive tackle, and a running back from Georgia.
All seven of the future Blue Devils come from different schools and cities, too. Solomon plays for Jones County High School in the city of Gray, while Kemp plays for Hebron Christian Academy in Dacula. Ma’Khi Jones, one of the defensive backs, comes from Alpharetta while the other defensive back, Kaleb Lanier, hails from Decatur.
Defensive lineman Julius Columbus calls Gainesville home, and running back Javin Gordon is from Toccoa. Offensive tackle Evan Scott, one of five offensive linemen in Diaz’s class, comes from Evans (a funny coincidence) to round out the state.
Georgia routinely produces some of the best college football talent in every recruiting class, a stat that makes sense when you consider that the state school won two of the last three national championships. There’s immense promise for the future if Diaz, whose major connections lie in Pennsylvania and Florida to this point, can expand his reach around the South.