Class Autopsy

Georgia Tech 2023 — what happened to every signee.

Georgia Tech’s 2023 class brought in 21 signees. 0 reached the NFL.

21
signees, National Signing Day 2023
0
reached the NFL.

The journey stack

One row per signee, ranked by signing-day national rank. Each chit is a stop; the line between them is a transfer. Open a row for the season-by-season record.

Gabe Fortson
No.777 national · IOL
georgia-techGTtulaneTULNarkansas-stateARST
2 transfersArkansas State
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored
Tulane — 2024: unscored
Arkansas State — 2025: unscored
Jacob Cruz
No.929 national · ATH
georgia-techGTjacksonville-stateJXST
1 transferJacksonville State
Georgia Tech — 2023: 0.0, 2024: unscored
Jacksonville State — 2025: 20.0
Benjamin Galloway
No.929 national · OT
georgia-techGT
StayedNever transferred
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Patrick Screws Jr.
No.972 national · IOL
georgia-techGT
PortalDestination unresolved
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Ethan Mackenny
No.1008 national · OT
georgia-techGT
StayedNever transferred
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Taye Seymore
No.1049 national · LB
georgia-techGTauburnAUB
1 transferAuburn
Georgia Tech — 2023: 0.0, 2024: 41.0
Auburn — 2025: unscored
Zion Taylor
No.1062 national · WR
georgia-techGT
StayedNever transferred
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: 17.0, 2025: 24.0
Eric Singleton, Jr.
No.1074 national · WR
georgia-techGT
StayedNever transferred
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Shymeik Jones
No.1079 national · DL
georgia-techGT
StayedNever transferred
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: 0.0
Ezra Odinjor
No.1113 national · EDGE
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1 transferUAB
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored
UAB — 2024: 25.0, 2025: 26.0
Nico Dowdell
No.1263 national · S
georgia-techGT
PortalDestination unresolved
Georgia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Evan Dickens
No.1304 national · RB
georgia-techGTlibertyLIB
1 transferLiberty
Georgia Tech — 2023: 29.0, 2024: unscored
Liberty — 2025: 77.0
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The receipts

No recruiting service wrote a word here. The national rank was the promise; what happened next is the whole story.

Never made the league

“The No. 777 player in America.”

signed Georgia Tech → never drafted

Never registered a scored season on our 0–100 scale.

The report card

Star power and cohesion are graded against all 297 qualifying classes, 2021–2023. NFL production and on-field value are graded against just the 107 other 2023 classes — a 2023 signee simply hasn’t had as many draft-eligible years as a 2021 signee, so those two dimensions compare like-for-like instead of penalizing recency. Overall GPA still ranks across all 297.

C
Star power
16 recruiting points
F
Cohesion
38% never transferred
A
NFL production
0 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
D
On-field value
mean peak grade 27.2, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in Georgia Tech’s conference

Georgia Tech’s 0 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 67%remaining: 33%
2
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Georgia Tech
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Source CFB Index · player_recruiting_profiles + player_nfl_draft

The fine print

Other ways to read the same class.

Star-weighted retention
32%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
0
Transfers that landed at another program in Georgia Tech’s current conference.
Dropped a level
2
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
8
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.