4-star Georgia football commit no longer with Colquitt County
This Sentell’s Intel rep on Georgia football recruiting has the latest with 4-star RB commit Jae Lamar. He ranks as the nation’s No. 12 RB and the No. 124 overall prospect for 2026 on the 247Sports Composite. The Rivals Industry Ranking has him as the No. 13 RB and No. 140 overall.
Colquitt County celebrated a big piece of good news last week.
The Packers managed a hard-fought 18-17 home win against a previously unbeaten Valdosta team that had looked pretty formidable this fall.
There is now some unfortunate news coming out of Moultrie today. Packers coach Sean Calhoun told DawgNation that 4-star Georgia football RB commit Jae Lamar is no longer a part of their football team.
He was also not a part of the team’s biggest win of the season last Friday night.
“Unfortunately, he’s no longer with us,” Calhoun said.
The Colquitt County coach was limited in what he could say beyond that, but he delivered that statement with some disappointment in his voice.
There had been rumblings last week of Lamar’s standing with the team being in question.
Those were made official on Monday. Georgia’s lone RB commitment for this cycle is no longer playing for his high school team. DawgNation has learned that UGA has yet to look into the matters behind that decision, but those will likely be forthcoming.
This current point in time marks a tough moment for Lamar. When he committed to UGA in June, it was one of the most emotionally-charged pledges in UGA history.
Lamar wept openly after he committed. He was surrounded by his family, friends, and loved ones. That was a high point in a high school career that almost never was.
He was unable to play in the first two seasons of his varsity career because he was consistently getting into trouble. Nothing serious. It was just the sort that would keep him from being eligible to play on Friday nights.
Lamar played in just one ninth-grade game as a freshman. He didn’t play at all as a sophomore. When he got his first varsity carries as a junior last year, he burst out to eight touchdowns in his first six games.
Lamar has spoken openly with DawgNation in the past about his troubled childhood.
“When I get the chance one day, I’d like to do a documentary one day,” he said back in February. “So people can see what is still possible when things get down.”
“Man, coming up, I was a troubled child,” Jae Lamar said. “I mean, I honestly thank God for what he has done for me in the past few years, you know? Just because of the simple fact of if I was able to play football and keep doing what I had to do on the football field and be a troubled child, I would not be in the position I am today.”
He said then he was not proud of those reasons and owned up to them.
“I feel like God makes no mistakes about what he does,” Lamar said. “He’s had my life planned out great, you know?”
“I mean, I’ve been shot and all.”
When a prospect does not play their first two years of high school, as a junior, earns offers from every big-time program in the country, that’s a unique story.
But that’s nothing compared to a young man saying God ‘has had my life planned out great’ in one breath and ‘I’ve been shot and all’ in their next.
Lamar even pointed out the wound.
“Shot in the leg,” he adds. “I’ve done did a little bit of everything. I just thank God for keeping me here, blessing me and allowing me to play the sport that I love. I’ve been thriving to play this sport. I told my Mom when we were in the hospital the day that I got shot, if I was ever to get another chance at football, I won’t ever mess it up.”
Lamar was like “14 or 15″ in his freshman year when he said that.
“Wrong place,” he said. “Wrong time.”
When he finally seemed to have turned a corner, he was sensational. The 4-star RB quickly earned an offer from the Dawgs, among other schools.
Lamar had long stated that his dream was to play for the Bulldogs and it seemed like it was very much a developing narrative of a young man turning his life around.
The Lamar story is now at a crossroads for the next stage of his career, much less that documentary.
There are limited options out there. He’d have a difficult time getting eligibility at another GHSA school, even with a bona fide move. There are options available to him at other schools in the state that are not part of the GHSA.
What does this mean for Georgia at RB?
The Bulldogs had been looking to take another RB in this class, even if Lamar was in good standing with his high school team.
Georgia hosted West Laurens RB Ty Cummings on Saturday for the Kentucky game. Cummings, currently committed to Georgia Southern, left Athens without an offer but was looking to keep in touch with the Dawgs moving forward.
Cummings has 88 carries for 1,332 yards and 17 touchdowns this season. He’s averaged 15.1 yards per carry as a running back and a “Wildcat” QB for his Raiders.
He’s had games this fall in which he put up 175, 222, 224 and a state record 615 yards and eight touchdowns in a 70-55 win against Baldwin on September 26. He rolled for 32.4 yards per carry on just 19 carries to put up those 615 yards.
Check out his senior film below:
There’s also 4-star Sandy Creek senior RB Amari Latimer to think about again here. Latimer, the nation’s No. 24 RB prospect for this cycle, has been committed to Wisconsin since June. The 6-foot-1, 220-pound senior has put together a strong varsity career and has looked strong this fall.
He has 927 yards on 104 carries with 15 TDs so far this fall. He’s also caught 11 passes for 194 yards and two scores.
According to MaxPreps.com, Latimer has now put up 3,440 yards and 49 scores on the ground over the last three seasons of his prep career. He’s carried the ball 421 times as a workhorse back for Sandy Creek and averaged 8.2 yards per carry.
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