“The Bowers Effect” might be a real thing, folks.
Georgia landed a commitment from five-star 2027 tight end Jaxon Dollar about a week ago, adding the yet another blue-chip tight end recruit to commit to the Bulldogs in the last half-decade.
Since 2022, Georgia has secured commitments from nine four-star or better tight end recruits. Five of them were rated as top five tight ends in the country, and Oscar Delp was the nation’s No. 1 tight end recruit when he enrolled in 2022.
Brock Bowers' legacy continues to benefit Georgia's recruiting today
It’s not a coincidence that those signings all came after the freshman year of Brock Bowers, who burst onto the scene in 2021 and was the leading receiver for two straight National Championship winning teams. He went on to become an NFL star after finishing his Georgia career as arguably the greatest college tight end of all time.
It’s the kind of career that has major ramifications for the program’s future. Bowers left an undeniable legacy in Athens, and there’s proof of concept that a tight end can come to Georgia and rack up a similar laundry list of both team and individual achievements.
This, along with the brilliance of tight ends coach Todd Hartley both in the facility and on the recruiting trail, has made Georgia arguably the premier destination for tight end recruits.
The Bulldogs deployed Bowers in all sorts of ways to create mismatches, making use of his speed and route-running prowess as an inline tight end, H-back, slot receiver or even in the backfield.
That’s an attractive proposition for high school tight ends who are so athletically gifted that they seek a role beyond the traditional tight end mold.
2026 signee and No. 3 tight end recruit Kaiden Prothro is probably the latest example of that, with head coach Kirby Smart lamenting after the team’s spring game that Prothro isn’t your average tight end.
"We think he's a mismatch," Smart said via 247Sports.com. "He's really an elite catch radius guy. He put that on display today. And that kind of summed up his spring in his ability to go make plays on the perimeter. He's a matchup problem."
This year, the Bulldogs have arguably the nation’s most loaded tight end group in the country. Even if Prothro doesn’t make a major impact as a true freshman (which he might!), there’s also veteran Lawson Luckie, 2024 speedster Jaden Reddell and 2025 signees Elyiss Williams and Ethan Barbour.
The Bulldogs seem quite excited about all of those guys, and the Dollar commitment just shows more signings are on the way. Brock Bowers and his mammoth legacy are the gifts that keep on giving for Georgia in the recruiting department.
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