5-star linebacker Smael Mondon announces his college commitment
Following a long recruitment that had a few twists and turns, 5-star linebacker Smael Mondon has finally announced his commitment — he’s a Dawg.
Mondon announced his decision during a Wednesday morning commitment ceremony at Paulding County High School. Mondon picked Georgia over Auburn, Florida, LSU and Tennessee.
It’s rare to see an elite defender leave the Peach State when Kirby Smart puts on the full-court press for a player and that continues to hold true as the newest member of Georgia’s 2021 recruiting class has long been a target of the Dawgs.
The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Paulding County standout is rated as the No. 27 overall prospect in the nation, the No. 2 outside linebacker and the No. 3 overall prospect from Georgia in the 2021 recruiting cycle by 247Sports Composite Rankings.
He plans to enroll early in the school he commits to on Wednesday morning. Mondon had been selected to play in the All-American Bowl but the high school all-star showcase game was canceled this year due to COVID.
In addition to being a star on the football field for Paulding County High School, Mondon also runs track.
To get an idea of what Mondon potentially brings to the defense in Athens, check out his junior season highlight reel below.
BBBOOM
Only the 3rd 5-star for this class, Kirby better get busy.
Flip Barrett Carter
Now UGA has commitments from the top 3 state of Georgia players and 5 of the top ten. Keeping the talent at home!
TDOW
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Enjoy it while you can gators. Next year will begin another 3 year stretch of the annual beatdown by the beach. Dawgs by 3 scores.
The new player is a LB. Not a QB.
Marsh
To the victor goes the spoils and you all won, my congratulations.
Victory is fleeting, enjoy it while you can.
Go Dawgs!
This is just horrible, the worst coach em’ up and develop em’ coach in the SEC and yet these 5 star kids keep coming and the gap keeps shrinking, what’s wrong with kids these days?
All kidding aside…you never know until they sign but great to hear and welcome the the G young man, go pups!
You obviously don’t know Derek Mason…. At least at Georgia, his path is easier to the NFL.
You guys are hilarious. Another local kid decides to stay home, who can explain something like this, I mean he could have stayed home and gone to GaTech, what a coup to get him instead.
Another thing, you keep accumulating 5 star D guys but what about the offense. Kirby doesn’t learn. I know Vandagriff is coming to be your savior and all, but still it’s all about the O and whether he’s a real savior or not is yet to be determined
So one bad year and now the offense is irreparably bad?
Well you do have good O linemen I’ll give you that.
Still need a QB though
NoCojones, you troll clown. This kid could have gone to any school in the nation. Bama, Ohio State, LSU, Stanford (the kid is that smart). I heard he threw his UF offer letter in the trash 2 seconds after he opened it.
Kid’s from Georgia
Plays defense
Kirby is a good DC
Big deal
go gators losers!!!!!
Dude, you need to come with a new line. That one’s getting really stale. I’m starting to wonder if you’re just a mindless bot.
Well you’re definitely mindless. Like most Bama fans.
Alright!
Dang. That’s a fast LB. Go Dawgs!
go gators
go kick rocks
Huge fill at a desperate position of need.
Desperate? Curious, how so? Don’t we have at worst Smith, Dean, Oja, Sherman, Marshall, Davis, Anderson returning along with 2 other top250s recruited and rumors of a top Jr Col transfer?
I specficially meant ILB. Since they only signed Sherman last year (who’s probably playing OLB anyway), that meant in 2022 when Nakobe, Walker, and Tindall are gone, you’re down to Rian Davis and Trezmen Marshall, both of whom have been hampered by injuries and seen very little action. UGA needed a true stud to come in behind Dean specifically at ILB and this keeps the high talent level up at the position.
Chambliss is also playing OLB.
Ahh, I see. I assumed Mondon was recruited for OLB based on his 2nd best OLB ranking, is he projected for ILB at UGa? I hadn’t heard that
Yeah, he’s projected at ILB. 247’s position rankings are whack sometimes.
He can have all the 5 stars in the world on defense it doesn’t really matter if he cant get the qb right. Thats been proven
Thanks Captain Obvious…
Obvious to some, except I know many Georgia fans dont seem to think Kirby knows how to get it right. I heard today Bennett was back getting reps with the first team. Im not sure what Kirby see’s in that little guy. And unfortunately they still dont have a qb next year. I dont think Brock is the answer either he is playing against middle schoolers. Maybe I will be wrong
Let’s allow 2021 to play out before becoming melodramatic
UGA is 2nd in the SEC in team sacks.
Anderson and Ojulari each have 4 sacks – tied for 2nd best in the SEC along with 7 other players. The 2 players tied for the lead in the SEC each have 5 sacks.
Do you have a point to make?????
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42 – 28
Chumps
Good to know, but how’s that working out for you
Florida is first in sacks
To win championships it takes both.
hahahhha i wouldn’t worry about that… be happy Pitts was knocked out by that thug and you clowns didn’t have 70 dropped on your roster full of 5 star talent
go gators losers
The reason Florida only scored 6 point the 2nd half had nothing to do with Pitts. And since it wasn’t a dirty hit, I presume you’re using “thug” in lieu of another word you’d prefer.
And go kick rocks you troll.
Boxster: when did thug come to mean what your hinting out. A thug is a violent person, especially a criminal. The word comes from the religious criminal organization from India, thuggies. It has also been used for the Mafia triggermen (aka: goons/muscle). Color has nothing to do with it. Even the rap song, “Thugs Paradise” sings about crime & violence and not race.
Darth, you are correct. In addition to everything you said, however, there are those who use thug to also mean what I am suggesting. For someone like you, a very reasonable and rational person, I would absolutely assume your use of the word thug to be along the lines of the definitions you offered. For someone as trollish and unhunged as UrbanLiar, I am not prepared to make any such assumption.
Kirby had the QB right for 3 years with Fromm. Fromm played great in 2017 and 2018. Last year Fromm had maybe 1 consistent receiver to throw to after Cager got hurt. And the play calling was pedestrian at best. Fields would have not fared much if any better last year with that receiving corp and play calling.
The right qb for 3 years? GTFOH with that nonsense. The Dawgs went to the national championship game because of the running game and defense.
Aside from the obvious attraction of staying close to home, it makes very little sense for any blue chip recruit to choose to attend the University of Georgia at this point. What is there to recommend UGA in 2020?
“it makes very little sense for any blue chip recruit to choose to attend the University of Georgia at this point”
To someone with blue and orange glasses sitting too tightly around their head, sure it probably does make little sense. But clearly your incredibly objective vantage point isn’t shared by all.
You would never understand.
Lol, enjoy your first win over UGA in 4 years, the feeling won’t last long.
enjoy not winning a title in 4 decades…. go gators losers… trailer parks must be down and out right now in pos Georgia
Alabama… Coming in 49th or 50th in everything that matters except for football. I’m surprised you can even get online to post and actually spell. You’re ahead of the Bama curve. LMAO.
44-28 chump
UF big stars are gone next year. Darth Vader has to start a rebuild in just his 4th year. You better win everything you can this year. It’s all down hill from here for the Turds.
Dumb take UGAgrad Moron, more like wishful thinking on your part. Wrong on many points but specially at the QB position where we are giving playing time to our 2 next QBs while you guys can’t even find one for the rest of this season. Our QBs for next year are getting valuable playing time this year and you don’t even know who your QB is this year let alone next year
HAHAHAHAHAHAH OH NO A 5 STAR… LIKE IT MATTERS! you clowns haven’t won anything that mattered in over 4 decades…. go back to rigging the election and don’t worry about you POS football program
go gators chumps
It matters enough to you that you felt compelled (see: scared) enough to troll up and down this comment section.
Seriously how old are you? You sound like a 12 yr old
You guys want to talk crap so its kind
You guys want to talk crap so its kind of like what comes around goes around. The UGA fans that are true morons like Corch, Urban Meyer next USC coach and KING CRYBABY don’t ever stop rubbing salt in the wound so now all the UGA fans that are polite have to hear it all year.
So why do you post under a Dawg name like you are a Dawg fan but you’re obviously a Dawg hater? All the teams have their trolls on this website.
It is definitely what comes around goes around and too bad for you and the few reasonable UGA fans.
Notice how some of the worst offenders like Corch and Negan are nowhere to be found
“Few reasonable dawg fans”
UGA UF UA
Corch CoJones UrbanLiar(a confused UF fan)
Negan Marshgator Afan
We all got ’em
You are the confused one. And yes, the very few
@jones…..what’s wrong. Run out of things to steal or kids to sell drugs?
Congrats to UGA on the commitment. Stud LB and someone I would have loved at UF given our LB woes. Not really shocking though