Georgia trending for 4-star safety along with unlikely SEC rival

Georgia football always finds themselves in heated recruiting battles with many other SEC programs. However, the SEC team Georgia is battling for four-star safety Jayden Aparizio-Bailey is not who anyone would expect.

Georgia meets Vanderbilt in battle for elite safety

Aparizio-Bailey is a four-star safety from Alabama who is the No. 275 overall player in the country. He also is the No. 24 safety in the 2027 recruiting class and the No. 12 player from his home state of Alabama.

As one would assume, many of the top programs in the country are showing a lot of interest in Aparizio-Bailey. This includes Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon and USC who are reportedly standing out to him the most right now. However, the other SEC team who Aparizio-Bailey is noticing throughout his recruiting process is Vanderbilt.

Vanderbilt is typically not a team Georgia ever goes up against for some of the top recruits in the country. They are especially not a program who ever has a chance to beat out a recruit that Georgia is pushing hard for. But when it comes to Aparizio-Bailey, it appears Vanderbilt is one of his top teams at this point in his recruitment who could take Georgia down.

This will be an interesting recruitment to follow throughout the next year as it appears many of the best programs in the country will be going all out to earn Aparizio-Bailey's commitment. A few of those elite programs are already in pursuit, but it looks like more are getting involved as teams like Clemson and Tennessee have recently offered him. But for now, Georgia is one of the top teams in Aparizio-Bailey's recruitment and they will look to keep it that way.

While this heavy competition will make this recruitment fun to follow, it is exciting to see Georgia battle a program like Vanderbilt who they don't typically run into on the recruiting trail.