Georgia defensive back reportedly arrested, facing reckless driving charge
Georgia defensive back Daniel Harris was reportedly arrested on misdemeanor driving charges on Thursday night.
According to Dawgs247’s Jordan Hill, Harris was booked late Thursday evening and has been charged with reckless driving, affixing materials that reduce the visibility of windows/windshield, no proof of insurance, operations of an unregistered vehicle without a current license plate/revalidation decal, and use of safety belts.
Per Hill, Harris was released on bonds totaling $50 a little over an hour after being booked.
Harris is in his sophomore season with the Dawgs. Per Pro Football Focus, he has played 45 snaps on defense through 2 games thus far. He’s the clear first option off the bench for Georgia behind starter Julian Humphrey.
His availability for Georgia’s Week 3 game against Kentucky now comes into question. The Bulldogs will release an availability report for the game on Friday.
This latest arrest continues a string of driving-related incidents involving Georgia football players.
Running back Trevor Etienne was suspended for Georgia’s opener after being arrested for DUI and reckless driving in the offseason. Offensive tackle Bo Hughley, wide receiver Sacovie White, and inside linebacker Smael Mondon were all arrested in recent months as well and slapped with charges that included reckless driving.
The 2023 offseason also saw multiple Georgia players and one staffer arrested for driving-related offenses. A January 2022 car crash claimed the lives of 2 members of the Georgia football and involved driving under the influence.
In the years since, coach Kirby Smart has come under heavy criticism for the repeated incidents. At SEC Media Days in July, Smart said he was “disappointed” but “very pleased” with a process that has seen players suspended, dismissed, and fined for driving-related offenses.
“I always say you can’t be outcome-related, and I’m very disappointed with the outcomes,” Smart said then, “but I am very pleased with our process we’ve put in in terms of education, driver safety, requiring defensive driving, education, talking about it, having leaders stand up and talking about it, suspending players, dismissing players.
“I don’t know to this point any coach in college football who has suspended a player for a driving citation. We have. We have, and we’ve also dismissed players based on driving citations. Nobody has done that. Hopefully they get the idea and the information, but we have a really good locker room. I love the players we have.”
Georgia faces Kentucky on the road at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC on Saturday.
this comment section should be fun
I have never gotten a speeding ticket after I started using the WAZE app.
Did he play on Saturday?
I’m waiting for the comments blaming it on Athens-Clarke county police.
Vols fans are always waiting on something.
Holy!!!! Kirby should mandate a driver safety course every year, for his whole team! Donors need to stop giving cars to UGA players as well! It’s not working out…
Awww and y’all were doing so good. LMAO!!! Guess Kirby has to reset the board back to 0 days without incident
This is actually funny!
You work offshore don’t you 123
No just inside your head my son
This is actually funny!
The comment, not the crazy driving….
Where you at Dougie poo, TDumb, dawg2021? BYW 2021 you never did answer me. So you just became a fan in 2021 when they broke their 40year streak? Convenient. Bandwagon fan. 2021 = BDub
2021 is so far 2024’s biggest Georgia Moron, quite a feat considering the competition
I’m just curious to what the speed was. He was charged for speeding, tint, no PROOF of insurance, no seatbelt, and tags were outdated. The speed is the biggest thing here that I see. That would be a bigger deal than the speeding.
What this does more than anything is further solidifies Georgia the Fulmer Cup Winner for like, 3-4 years in a row now.
He was clocked at 106 in a 65 mph zone.
I was wondering what violation of the traffic code would lead to an actual arrest. That would do it, plus the car was not street legal due to the no proof of insurance, operations of an unregistered vehicle without a current license plate/revalidation decal. I must say Georgia must be a lot different than where I was a LEO. It took a lot for us to actually arrest someone. DUI of course, but also exceeding the speed limit by 40 MPH could do it. In that case we would charge them with depraved indifference.
So yeah. That speed definitely justifies a reckless driving charge. This man is out here thinking he is Henry Ruggs.
I bet he pleads guilty and they drop the speed down so it is a lesser charge. Reckless driving is still a misdemeanor.
In a lot of states, it is a traffic charge. It is about equal to a misdemeanor, and can include jail time though rare, though it is not charged under the criminal code. In some states exceeding the speed limit by 15 MPH is reckless driving. This usually just means a big fine and no arrest. Though exceeding the speed limit by 40, can be argued, shows a depraved indifference to human life and can be charged under the criminal code.
i’m not excusing the action or behavior, but this is the 5th uga player arrested for a reckless driving charge in the last 3 yrs. by the amount of coverage and attention aimed at uga over driving offenses since that tragic date in january 2023, this feels like the 50th.
agree P, uga has a target on their back for driving offenses almost as much as football. With some fans and media even moreso. I wonder how many driving citations were issued to players at other schools during the same time period. It all goes back to the two deaths and I dont suspect it will go away for a very long time. 106 in a 65, if true, is pretty egregious. Sounds like something I would have done at 18-22.
“Georgia has had at least 29 arrests or citations for speeding, reckless driving or racing since the crash.”
” no proof of insurance, operations of an unregistered vehicle without a current license plate/revalidation decal, and use of safety belts.”
He needs to lose his drivers license for that. There are so many accidents now involving idiots driving without insurance etc.
Put a fresh tampon in, take a Midol and STFU Rhonda
Say, shouldn’t you be out blowing AU players after that humiliating loss to Cal, you know pick up their spirits?
Amazing how you defend rapists and drunk drivers.
Go suck more d ick, skank.
^^^this is what you get when gender affirmation surgery goes all wrong. Reduced to pathetic senseless drivel, but hey, at least you got a nice set of 36d’s out of the deal donnieboi…
Just the good ol’ Dawgs
Never meanin’ no harm
Beats all you’ve never saw, been in trouble with the Athens-Clarke County PD
Since the day they matriculated
Straightenin’ the curve
Flate’nin’ the hills
Someday the mountain might get ’em
But the ACCPD never will
Makin’ their way
The only way they know how
That’s just a little bit more
Than the ACCPD will allow
Just the good ol’ Dawgs
Wouldn’t change if they could
Stomping the hillbillyies like a
Two modern day Robin Hood
“Someday the mountain might get ’em
But the ACCPD never will”
Seems like they’re getting more than their fair share!
pocket change, just spreading the wealth around, helping the ACCPD pay for some picnics and the department Chr1stmas Party
Grow up, child
Seems like they are gettin them
You’ve got to crack a few eggs to make a good omelet, boys will be boys and the alpha males will really be boys, good sales covers lot of sins and omissions, UGA fans sleep peacefully in their beds on Saturday nights only because rough men stand ready to do violence to rivals on their behalf …
The low-T kuck crowd will cry foul, act all aghast, virtue signal and give an appalled skit because their players routinely get curb stomped by our players
Somebody wake me when some substantial and meaning happens
These boys gotta live long enough to become men…..
low-T kuck crowd member #1 present and accounted for, thank you vol_88
next
Substantial like the two mutilated corpses your program has buried over this kind of behavior?
Another traffic fatality maybe. But hey it’s not your family so pedal to the metal. Perfect sh!tty take by another UGA moron
Shocking.
This comment section is like a Tennessee fan tickle party
Athens is a great place to get raped by illegals, and hit by drunk drivers.
Every single one of these kids that do this need to be riding bicycles for the remainder of their duration at UGA.
Hahahahaha. What a disgrace of a program. Those leghumpers are out of control. Everyone turns a blind eye as long as they win.
Miami of the 80s
Nebraska of the 90s
Georgia is the new thugs on the block.
What an embarrassment of a program. Kirby has no control.
What an idiot! I hope his football career works out, ’cause I doubt he’ll graduate with that level of intelligence… if he lives that long.
If you check the stats, not many from UGA graduate, regardless of driving record.
No one can deny that UGA team speed is really good
Honest question: what is going on with all the high speed traffic violations? You would think someone would correct this, internally or externally.
I can hear Kirby whining all the way from here.
As Paul Simon sang, ‘After changes upon changes we are more or less the same.’
Is that you Mikey Price?