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Georgia Tech Football: Jackets offer son of Atlanta sports legend

By Dylan Callaghan-Croley

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 10: The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets' mascot Buzz poses for a portrait on the sidelines prior to the start of the Yellow Jackets' football game against the Miami Hurricanes at Bobby Dodd Stadium on November 10, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Mike Comer/Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 10: The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets' mascot Buzz poses for a portrait on the sidelines prior to the start of the Yellow Jackets' football game against the Miami Hurricanes at Bobby Dodd Stadium on November 10, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Mike Comer/Getty Images) /
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The Georgia Tech football program has offered the the son of a college football, an NFL, and Atlanta sports legend.

Not many times do college football coaches get to recruit the sons of legendary athletes. But that is exactly what the Georgia Tech football coaching staff is able to do as they have entered the recruitment of 2021 quarterback Shedeur Sanders. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the son of college football, NFL, and Atlanta sports legend Deion Sanders.

Shedeur is a  6-foot-1, 180-pound quarterback out of Trinity Christian School in Cedar Hill, Texas. Of course, the Sanders family does have a ton of connections to Atlanta with Deion playing for both the Braves and Falcons during his professional baseball and football careers. Sanders, still just a junior quarterback isn’t ranked by the major recruiting services but his offer list is beginning to build up and it includes some notable programs.

Schools that have entered the fold and are looking to make plays for Sanders include Alabama, Arizona State, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, and Oregon. The Yellow Jackets of course have now entered the fold for him as well. The early favorite to land the younger Sanders is that of Florida State, his dad’s alma mater.

The Jackets so far in the 2021 recruiting class do not have any commitments but are off to a tremendous start in the 2020 recruiting class with 13 commitments and ranks 14th in the nation according to 247Sports.

With the video that Sanders posted above discussing his visit to The Flats, it’s safe to say that the Jackets made a great impression on the Texas quarterback. Sanders recruitment certainly has a long ways to go and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to wrap any time soon so expect the Jackets coaching staff to look to get Sanders back on campus in the upcoming months or sometime this season.