With the 2025 NFL Draft starting yesterday, the greatest college football players gathered to see if their name would be one of the first 32 names picked in the draft, and there were highs and lows along the way for a lot of teams, but for the fifteenth consecutive season, something happened: the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets did not hear their school called at all in the first round of the draft.
The talent from players for the Yellow Jackets had dropped off for a bit, and reached an all-time low after the 2020 draft, where there would be no Yellow Jackets players taken at all for the third consecutive season.
Since then, there have been players drafted from the Yellow Jackets, such as Tyler Davis, Pressley Harvin II, and Tariq Carpenter in later rounds, but it was not until the 2024 NFL Draft where the Yellow Jackets made a huge improvement with Keion White, who was the highest drafted Yellow Jackets player since wide receiver Stephen Hill was selected as the 43rd overall pick in the 2012 draft. White was selected 46th overall by the New England Patriots last season.
The future for the Yellow Jackets in future drafts does look bright though, as the player talent is starting to come back to the Yellow Jackets with incoming transfer wide receiver Eric Rivers possibly being a highly sought after player in next year's draft or possibly Jamal Haynes climbing up draft boards if he has a great season next year.