Georgia includes 4-star TE Barbour to 2025 class

• Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Personnel WriterSep 22, 2023, 12:45 PM ET

With the machine Kirby Smart has actually built at Georgia, the program will not be captured not looking ahead.Four-star tight end Ethan Barbour(No. 94 overall in the 2025 ESPN 300) became the current member of the Bulldogs’burgeoning recruiting class Friday. “They truly did a full-scale

effort with everybody on their staff constructing a relationship with not just me, however my moms and dads also, “Barbour told ESPN.”We spoke with everybody in the structure. I’m taking everybody from the academic department to, naturally,(tight ends)Coach (Todd)Hartley and Coach Smart. And they corresponded throughout the process. That indicated a lot.”Barbour, the leading tight end in the 2025 class

, chose Georgia over Alabama, Auburn, Texas and South Carolina. He’s the seventh ESPN 300 player for Georgia and the program’s 5th top-100 prospect in the cycle.Through three games this season for Alpharetta High School(Georgia), the 6-foot-3, 225-pound Barbour has 11 receptions for 227 lawns and five touchdowns.”My skill set matches up well with how they have actually utilized TEs in the past,”he stated.

“Plus, they have an excellent record establishing tight ends and their success over the last couple of years getting guys drafted into the league speaks for itself.”Brock Bowers, a possible top-10 choice in the 2024 NFL draft, had 119 receptions for 1,824 backyards and 20 goals integrated in his very first two seasons in Athens– making first-team All-American honors in 2022. Through 3 weeks this season, he has 13 catches 135 lawns for the two-time safeguarding national champions.Darnell Washington was prepared in the 3rd round (93rd overall)by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2023 after his three-year profession in Athens(45 receptions for 774

lawns and 3 TDs in 36 games from 2020 to’22).” Coach Hartley and Coach Smart set out an excellent tactical plan of how they see me fitting into the TE room, however I’m prepared to do whatever is required for us to win,”Barbour said.Barbour would be the seventh ESPN 300 tight end the Bulldogs have signed because the 2020 cycle. Jaden Reddell (No. 52 general in 2024 )devoted in May, signing up with ESPN’s existing top-ranked class for 2024.

And by staying close to home, Barbour aims to contribute to that tradition.”I took my time going to a lot of schools over the last couple of years attempting to be familiar with them better, “he said.”And although I value all of the schools and coaches who hired me, Georgia simply felt right after it was all said and done.”