David Sanders Jr., a five-star recruit from Charlotte, North Carolina’s Providence Day School, who is ranked as the top offensive tackler and second overall pick in the 2025 college football recruiting class, visited Georgia over the weekend. The Bulldogs, who assisted their team in winning a state championship this past fall, are competing against Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, South Carolina, and Tennessee for the title of Gatorade Player of the Year in North Carolina.
Throughout his process, the 6-foot-7, 275-pound player has visited Athens multiple times.
College football was never really a normal sport — the pageantry, marching bands, 100,000-seat stadiums and so many other ingredients that makes it feel more like a way of life than a game, not to mention the management messiness of it all — but if you’re looking for yet another example that the college football we knew is not even the college football we now have in front of us, then all 6-foot-7, 360 pounds of him,
For those unfamiliar, Proctor started every game at left tackle for Alabama this season. The former 5-star signee, a Des Moines native, earned True Freshman All-American honors and helped the Tide reach the CFB Playoff. Then Nick Saban retired and Proctor, like several other notable Tide players, ended up in the transfer portal, where he was ranked as the No. 2 overall prospect.
Proctor then went home to Iowa. Very normal: A homesick freshman goes back to the program he was committed to for long stretches of his high school recruiting process. Nobody should bat an eye at that sort of decision.
