Former touted Georgia player Deangelo Gibbs transfers to Tennessee
UPDATE: Deangelo Gibb has enrolled in class for the spring semester at Tennessee.
Tennessee landed a big-time transfer Thursday night, per Rivals’ Jesse Simonton.
Former Georgia safety Deangelo Gibbs (Loganville, Ga.) has transferred to the Vols, and he’ll start his UT career at wide receiver. Gibbs will almost certainly have to sit out the 2019 season due to the transfer rule.
The sophomore was rated a 4-star prospect and signed with UGA in the class of 2017. He was ranked as the nation’s No. 4 overall safety and the state of Georgia’s No. 6 overall prospect, according to 247Sports Composite Rankings. The Bulldogs originally beat out Alabama for the top 50 overall prospect’s signature.
Gibbs left the UGA team earlier last season, and he faded to the back on Georgia’s defensive backfield depth chart. Gibbs, however, appears to be changing positions at Tennessee, and that may help him have an impact in the SEC.
Tennessee lands Georgia transfer Deangelo Gibbs. @GrantRamey first reported.
The former 4-star DB prospect took an official visit to Knoxville last weekend. Sources say Gibbs will play WR for the Vols, likely must sit out 2019 season.
— Jesse Simonton (@JesseReSimonton) January 18, 2019
Not surprised that’s where he ended up given the family ties, and hopefully for the kid he can focus on being an athlete and doing things right. Sad he never panned out at UGA, but I’m interested to see what he can do as a receiver.
Hope he has success elsewhere. I remember being really excited when we got him a few years ago. Ironically we could have used him as a WR this year with our limited depth, though I’m not sure he’d be polished enough to compete with Holloman and company as a convert from safety.
So he played WR and RB in high school, was recruited as an athlete. UGA stuck him on defense as a safety and apparently he never wanted to be on defense which would explain why he didn’t pan out. Tennessee is going to let him do what comes naturally to him which is offensive skill positions.
He isn’t fast enough to play wr at the college level. His future was always going to be on defense. Off field troubles and JR Reed being as good as he is took playing time away from Gibbs. Ironically Reed is also his cousin. I really hope he gets his act together and become the player we thought he would be.
In high school he played WR and safety, but he was only used as RB a few times at Grayson. Coming out of high school he wasn’t being recruited as an athlete. He was the #4 Safety in the 2017 class. He was actually impressive on defense. Hard hitter and played coverage well. Georgia recruited him for defense because that is where everyone was recruiting him. His time at Georgia something was always going on with him which Kirby never let the whole story out. I hope he does well for the Vols.
He played secondary in all the camps and was rated as a safety.
Does he still have a criminal case against him?
I think you’re thinking of Tray Bishop. As far as I know, Deangelo never had any “off-field troubles” in legal terms. Maybe his grades. I dunno.
I hope he does fine other than when he plays us.
Yep, it was Bishop I was thinking of.
Quit trying to tarnish him, he never had any case against him and you know it.
Not trying to tarnish the kid. I was thinking of the other transfer…honest mistake.
He’d be at Auburn if he did..
BamaTime you are a funny dude!! you really crack me up sometimes!
Thank you.
Big facts.
He’d be a champion too.
SEC West rings are hard to come by.
In all seriousness, I understand your mistake. It’s easy to make, given his and Tray’s headline presence at the same time.
This makes the second big transfer Tennessee picked up this off-season. That guy from Michigan, who UGA also wanted, was a nice one for them.
Still early but I think Tennessee bungling their way into Pruitt is going to work in their favor
Chaney leaves UGA and he’s no good…
Gibbs leaves UGA and he’s no good…
Other asst coaches and players leave UGA and they’re no good…
What do all of these “no good” players and coaches have in common? Kirby brought ALL of them in. So what does it say about Kirby boy that he keeps bring in all these “no good” people? LOL
I don’t see where anyone said he wasn’t any good. I read several positive comments that are very rare on this site. I too wish the young man the best.
With Tennessee being as terrible as they are, it comes with no surprise that their few remaining fans are insecure..
LOL not insecure at all bammer. Just pointing out facts. Now go kiss your sister.
He’s coming to UT as a WR… show me where any of you leg humpers said he was good as a WR? I can show you where some said he wasn’t good at WR (he’s to slow etc).
Fact is there’s quite the exodus occurring at UGA whether y’all want to admit it or not.
Exodus has in where players who aren’t good enough to start there go to a less talented/worse team that hasn’t made a bowl game in 2016..?
Volbeef88 Yes in my opinion he is a tad too slow to play WR at the college level! Could he prove me wrong and become Calvin freaking Ridley yas he could and I would be extremely happy for the kid! But i still believe he would be an outstanding safety! he reminded me of Thomas Davis coming out of High School and I still believe he has that type of potential, so i never said he wasn’t a good player! I hope he becomes the next Eric Berry for you guys! As for Jim Chaney plenty of Dawg fans have wanted Chaney gone well before UT needed to replace the OC. while his offense looked great against average Defenses it was a different story against teams with better defenses! hell look at the game against Tenn, it was 24-6 going into the 4th quarter. He wasn’t creative he never made adjustments and the red zone offense this past season was the worst. Look at how many times we had to kick a fg from inside the 10 yard line! and what assistant coaches not named Chaney left that was bad mouthed by any UGA fan? All the support staffers that left got on field jobs (promotions).
^YES
UGA did NOT lose to bammer because of offensive play calling. Period
Volbeef88
Where in my reply did I mention anything about getting beat by Bamma?
Volbeef, exactly what I would expect from you. You fell for Chucky playing UT for a fool (twice!), and you’ve guaranteed that UT will “restore the East to it’s natural order” (seeming to miss the fact that UF and UGA have won the East more than UT). Why does this take not surprise me?
That may be legends instead of bama time. Legends is the insecure little boy who changes his green name around to different schools to troll. He can’t help himself. He and ugarmy got into the spray paint and have never been the same.
UT also got ass whipped the last two years by these “no good” people.
They did beat us. What does that say that he left to join UT? LOL and other UT coaches turning down P5 school Coordinator jobs to stay as position coaches at UT?
Its says that Kirby and UGA didnt think Jim Chaney was worth making him the highest paid OC in college football
All it says is they wanted more money. The only reason y’all got the OC was because of money. You can try to spin it all you want but it is tied directly to money. Charles Kelly turned down the DC job because he couldn’t make as a DC at Florida State so how was he going to make it with lesser talent.
^^^ That’s EXACTLY what it says. It also says he felt footsteps when he was demoted from QB Coach to TE Coach, and suddenly had the new QB Coach as his Co-Coordinator. What it says is he saw the handwriting on the wall and then Todd Grantham Lightning struck twice.
When the dawgs stomp a mud hole in the voluntears next season make sure you show up in the comments.
Too bad no one yelled something he didn’t like from the crowd of 93,000 in Athens. He could likely play right away.
I guess Georgia should recruit more racist baseball players?
How is he going to play right away? What justification could he possibly use? I’m sure Fields has heard and used the n-word before…..not sure how that justifies a “hardship waiver”……he played in 12 of 14 games.
If it works for Fields and he was present at the same moment, would be hard for the NCAA to deny him and not Fields (apart from the comment being directed at Fields). It’s a pr nightmare as well if you’re seen as not assisting a kid who was involved in racial animosity.