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Numerous top recruits visiting Georgia football program in June

The Georgia Bulldogs and Kirby Smart hold the top-ranked recruiting class for the class of 2022 and 2023. Who is visiting UGA in June?

Recruiting visits are back for college football! For the first time since March 2020, the NCAA’s recruiting dead period is lifted.

The Georgia Bulldogs and Kirby Smart hold the top-ranked recruiting class for the class of 2022 and 2023. There is still a long way to go, but the Dawgs have a promising amount of talent lined up to visit in June.

College football recruiting is feeling more normal. It will be a crazy month of June. Numerous prospects have committed to schools without visiting the schools in person. June is expected to be one of the busiest college football recruiting months ever.

Who are some of the top prospects set to visit the University of Georgia in June?

Georgia football makes top-7 schools for 2022 WR Leon Haughton Jr.

Georgia football has made the top-schools of Benedictine High School’s Leon Haughton Jr., a three-star receiver from Richmond, Va.

Georgia football has made 2022 wide receiver Leon Haughton Jr.’s list of his top-7 schools.

Haughton Jr. is a three-star receiver for Benedictine High School in Richmond, Va.

The list includes Nebraska, Virginia, Penn State, Pittsburg, Maryland, Virginia Tech and Georgia.

Haughton Jr. is rated as the No. 23 player in the state of Virginia, the No. 864 player in the country and the No. 110 receiver overall, according to 247sports.

Standing at 6-foot-4, 198 pounds, Haughton Jr. has offers from 15 schools, which includes offers from programs like  Penn State, Arkansas, Kentucky and now Georgia.

Check out some of his sophomore season highlights here. 

 

UGA football offers big Virginia WR Leon Haughton Jr.

The Georgia Bulldogs have offered a scholarship to wide receiver Leon Haughton Jr. of Benedictine College Preparatory in Richmond, Virginia

The Georgia Bulldogs have offered a scholarship to wide receiver Leon Haughton Jr., who is a member of the class of 2022. Haughton Jr. is a junior at Benedictine College Preparatory in Richmond, Virginia.

Leon Haughton Jr. is rated as a three-star recruit. He’s got good size for a possession wide receiver at six-foot-four and he weighs about 200 pounds.

Nebraska, Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Penn State, and more have already offered Haughton Jr. a football scholarship. We’ll let you know when he releases a list of top schools.

Oct 10, 2020; Athens, Georgia, USA; Georgia Bulldogs wide receiver Jermaine Burton (7) gets pushed out of bounds by Tennessee Volunteers linebacker Henry To’o To’o (11) during the first half at Sanford Stadium. Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports

Haughton Jr. can high point the ball and will likely be a threat in the red zone at the next level. Check out some of his highlights from a camp he attended before this high school football season:

The three-star wide receiver announced his scholarship offer from the University of Georgia via his Twitter account:

Congratulations to the young man. We wish him the best moving forward.

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