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Georgia safety Justyn Rhett has committed to transfer to Nebraska, he told On3 on Saturday.
The 6-foot-1, 205-pound freshman will have 3 years of eligibility left. He was a 4-star recruit from Las Vegas (Nev.) Bishop Gorman in the 2023 class.
Rhett decided to enter the portal on Dec. 13, less than a week after Georgia outlasted Texas to win the SEC title. Instead of continuing to play for the Bulldogs, who are the No. 2 seed in the Playoff, Rhett has decided he wants to start fresh in the Big Ten in 2025.
Rhett spent 2 seasons playing for Kirby Smart in Athens and was a redshirt freshman with the Bulldogs in 2024. After redshirting with just 2 appearances last season, he appeared in only 2 more this fall on defense.
In those limited snaps over the past 2 seasons at Georgia, Rhett posted 2 tackles, both of them solo, in 2024, and he managed 1 solo tackle during his abbreviated true freshman season in 2023.
Now, Rhett is leaving a prominent SEC program for a Big Ten program that had a bit of a breakthrough in 2024 led by quarterback Dylan Raiola, a one-time Georgia commit. The Huskers went 6-6 to earn their first bowl appearance since 2016.
Rhett becomes the eighth transfer player to publicly commit to Nebraska this cycle, and the fourth on the defensive side of the ball.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
