Grayson High standout DE 1st commitment for ’25 class

Tech hopes local player tip of iceberg for recruitment.

Georgia Tech’s 2025 signing class has its first member in the form of a local prospect.

Andre Fuller, a 6-foot-2, 225-pound defensive end from Grayson High, committed to Tech on Saturday, hours after the Yellow Jackets held their first spring scrimmage. Fuller is a three-star prospect in the 247Sports Composite, also reportedly holds scholarship offers from Duke, Louisville,

Missouri and South Carolina, among others.

Fuller is the first prospect in the ’25 class to publicly commit to Tech. He reportedly was one of a handful of recruits on campus this weekend to watch the Jackets’ scrimmage.

After that scrimmage, coach Brent Key said, “There hadn’t been a day of practice so far that we have not had an absolute great turnout of recruits coming here.”

In 13 games for Grayson in 2023, Fuller had eight sacks, 16 quarterback hurries, 79 tackles and a fumble recovery. He was an honorable mention selection on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s all-state team for

Class 7A, named to the AJC’s all-metro team for Gwinnett County and voted second team all-region for 4-7A.

Tech is hoping Fuller’s commitment is the tip of the iceberg for its current recruiting efforts.

“We’ve had more kids on campus in the last two weeks than we’ve had in the last — one day there was so many people out at the indoor (practice facility), I’m flipping out over guys getting too close to the sideline,” Key said. “(Tech chief of staff Donald Hill-Eley) comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, young buck, I remember when there was about 10 people here; now we got about 300. Let’s count our blessings and figure it out.’”

Tech is coming off a 2024 recruiting cycle in which it signed a class ranked 33rd nationally and seventh among ACC teams (including newcomers Stanford, California and SMU).

Key and his staff, which includes new assistants Trent McKnight, Jess Simpson, Kyle Pope, Cory Peoples and Tyler Santucci, will strive to match or improve that ranking come signing day in December. Fuller represents the start of that endeavor.

The last time a Grayson High player was in a Tech signing class was in 2021, with running back Jamal Haynes. He was the Jackets’ leading rusher last season.