Here's our 2022 roster from ESPN, sorted by class, and filtered to just the DL. It doesn't split out the DEs/EDGE/DTs/NTs from each other. It hasn't been updated for graduation or the transfer portal. We have some freshmen coming in, but I think our DL next year is mostly our DL this year without Keion White.
Keion White was special this year, and he'll be missed.
Sylvain Yondjouen graduated, and I don't know if he's staying for another year. So far he doesn't seem to be in the transfer portal. There are some good names in the Freshmen and Sophomores on this list. Even if Yondjouen is gone, there are 19 players on this list for next season--that's nearly 4 deep.
Grey Carroll is listed as a R-Freshman. I don't know how much COVID factors into the class for each player.
Note: Hey, just supplying what the DL roster kind of looks like so that y'all can look at it, see who we have, and start to have an idea of what we can do with it. We stayed pretty true to the 4-2-5 last season, but maybe LB is stronger in 2023 and we use more 3-3-5 than this past season.
This is the first offseason that the defensive coaches can get together without TFG and figure out what they want to do with their players. Maybe they add some tweaks. We were much more interesting on the DL in 2022 than we were the year before.
If a total stud or two want to transfer here and wreak havoc, I'd be glad to have them, but I think we have some good-looking players here.
Also, I can probably dig up a lot of 2021 posts about how disappointing White and Yondjouen were, and how we'd be terrible after our best two DL transferred out. We could have used them, but I think our defensive coaching staff is good.
NAME | POS | HT | WT | CLASS | BIRTHPLACE |
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Christian Burkhalter 31 | DL | 6' 4" | 236 lbs | FR | Mobile, AL |
Grey Carroll 49 | DL | 6' 3" | 255 lbs | FR | Alcoa, TN |
Horace Lockett 55 | DL | 6' 6" | 337 lbs | FR | Atlanta, GA |
Jalen McDonald 91 | DL | 6' 1" | 220 lbs | FR | Fayetteville, NC |
K.J. Miles 56 | DL | 6' 4" | 280 lbs | FR | Orange, NJ |
Jason Moore 95 | DL | 6' 2" | 291 lbs | FR | Hampton, GA |
Jaaymen Rochell 93 | DL | 6' 4" | 290 lbs | FR | Duluth, GA |
Chase Sippola 94 | DL | 5' 10" | 259 lbs | FR | Carrollton, GA |
Akelo Stone 97 | DL | 6' 2" | 280 lbs | FR | Savannah, GA |
Ty Thompson 92 | DL | 5' 11" | 224 lbs | FR | Acworth, GA |
Zeek Biggers 88 | DL | 6' 6" | 341 lbs | SO | Salisbury, NC |
Noah Collins 43 | DL | 6' 5" | 243 lbs | SO | Loganville, GA |
D'Quan Douse 99 | DL | 6' 2" | 282 lbs | SO | Savannah, GA |
Kevin Harris 11 | DL | 6' 4" | 241 lbs | SO | Loganville, GA |
Kyle Kennard 9 | DL | 6' 5" | 240 lbs | SO | Atlanta, GA |
Josh Robinson 27 | DL | 6' 6" | 259 lbs | SO | Douglasville, GA |
Makius Scott 8 | DL | 6' 4" | 295 lbs | SO | Gainesville, GA |
Daniel Carson 90 | DL | 6' 4" | 287 lbs | JR | Kansas City, MO |
T.K. Chimedza 5 | DL | 6' 3" | 335 lbs | JR | Dacula, GA |
Sylvain Yondjouen 32 | DL | 6' 4" | 257 lbs | JR | Ruisbroek, Belgium |
Keion White 6 | DL | 6' 5" | 286 lbs | SR | Garner, NC |