4-star OT Kennedee Jackson flips from Florida to Georgia football
The word around the recruitment of 4-star Lithonia High offensive tackle was that it was always going to be very hard to beat out Georgia.
It was. And it still is.
Jackson’s whirlwind month continued today. He’d recently set a June 10 commitment date, but then moved up his UGA visit by a week to see the Dawgs before his decision.
Florida had him in Gainesville for an official visit on May 29. During that visit, they got him to commit to what has been a robust offensive line class for the Gators.
It was a big win: Scoring a major target for the Dawgs in advance of that scheduled UGA visit.
As it turns out, that wasn’t final. Georgia’s staff got Jackson to still take his official visit to UGA on June 5.
That visit happened. Intertia took over. Jackson always thought of UGA as a dream school growing up.
The Dawgs closed the deal over the last week since he took that official visit to see UGA last weekend. They were able to reel the 6-foot-6, 300-pound OT back to the home-state school.
The Lithonia Bulldog will now be a Georgia Bulldog, as he officially flipped on Saturday.
With this decision, the Dawgs now have 14 commitments for this cycle. He’s now the third-highest-rated commitment of the class.
“At first, I wasn’t going to go on a visit, but they convinced me and I went on a visit. They answered all the missing pieces and showed much love and expressed that I was a priority there,” Jackson told DawgNation on Saturday afternoon.
The 4-star also becomes the second UGA commitment among the top 10 prospects in Georgia for 2027. The decision also moves UGA up four spots in the 247Sports class rankings to No. 20 nationally.
He’s also seen as a true prototype left tackle prospect. He hails from the same high school program that sent future first-round pick Broderick Jones to Athens. While Jones was rated as a 5-star coming out of high school, Jackson also projects as a multi-year starter for Georgia at left tackle in the SEC.
Jackson is now the highest-rated in-state commitment for Georgia, as he’s the No. 8 player in the state per the 247Sports Composite rankings.
Check out his junior film below. He’s raw, but has the skill set to be that prototype left tackle with great feet and agility at the high Power 4 level. Jackson had just transferred to Lithonia High back in January.