The 2025 season for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will see the team combine a strong 2025 recruiting class, returning starters, and bench players from last season that will finally see some playing time. However, the group that could see the most change will be the secondary for the Yellow Jackets.
Returning starters from last season will include Ahmari Harvey and Clayton Powell-Lee, but additions in the offseason will make this season one to watch for the position group. One of the names to keep an eye out for will be Tae Harris, a four-star recruit from Cedartown Georgia, that could split playing time with Savion Riley, another safety that Yellow Jackets head coach Brent Key brought in over the offseason as a transfer from the Colorado Buffaloes.
The cornerback room will be severely crowded, as the group will bring back Harvey, but incoming transfers Kelvin Hill Jr and Daiquon White, who both have starting experience in their college careers. Add in returning rotational corners from last year in Rodney Shelley, Zachary Tobe, and and Omar Daniels, and you get a group that could see a lot of faces.
The good news for the cornerbacks is that it seemed liked new defensive coordinator Blake Gideon likes to run a 4-2-5 nickel defense, which allows him to bring in a third cornerback that could very well be a rotational guy as the season goes along.
The group will look different, but the depth of both the safeties and cornerbacks will be something that is vastly improved in 2026.