Everything is murky in this story. Committed to Miami, flipped to Florida due to NIL (according to rumors), flipped to Arizona St. because of an NIL disagreement with UF (according to rumors). Freshman season he played in 2 games, had an undisclosed knee injury, reported out for 4-6 weeks but missed 9 games. He was scheduled to start the final game against Arizona, but didn't get the start, reportedly due to being "late for a team meeting".

After the season he had surgery for a thumb injury, was apparently expected that he would miss all of spring practice, but then did throw in some of the practices, and then entered the portal, unclear why. National writers at On3 (but not UGA writers) immediately reported that he was considering UGA and visiting on Monday (today), which was odd because apparently (according to Jake Rowe) some of Georgia's relevant coaches are on vacation this week. By Saturday that story had changed, with a different national writer at On3 reporting he was visiting at the end of the month, date unspecified.

Jake Rowe and Palmer Thombs discussed Rashada for about 12 minutes in a DawgsHQ video uploaded Sunday. It was a confusing conversation; they were hedging back and forth about the situation. Rowe started off by saying he was a little surprised then didn't say why. He said in passing that the thumb injury was an "off field injury". They said some positive things about Rashada's talent, but then for some reason veered into a discussion about culture issues from the 2018 class that changed Kirby's perspective on recruiting. Several times it started to sound a little negative but quickly changed course. Toward the end, Rowe said it would be interesting to see if the visit takes place.

It still sounds to me like the national recruiting writers and UGA writers are not quite on the same page in this story.

This post was edited on 4/22/24 at 11:05 am