Tight ends are expected to be a big strength for the UGA offense in 2025. Here's more on the Georgia tight end room
The Georgia Bulldogs' tight end room should be one of the Georgia's top strengths this fall. Georgia returns over 75% of their 2024 tight receiving production. Yes, Georgia lost Benjamin Yurosek, who was UGA's third-best tight end in 2024, to the 2025 NFL draft, but the Dawgs return their top two tight ends in Lawson Luckie and Oscar Delp and the position is expected to be a major strength of Georgia's offense.
Georgia's 2024 tight end room was faced with the impossible task of replacing star tight end Brock Bowers. Last season, Georgia tight ends (62 receptions for 799 yards and seven touchdowns) managed to out produce Bowers' 2023 season totals (56 receptions for 714 receiving yards and six touchdowns). However, Georgia did not match Bowers' 2023 production on a per game basis when accounting to the games Bowers missed due to injury.
Georgia's projected tight end depth chart
- Oscar Delp
- Lawson Luckie
- Jaden Reddell
- Colton Heinrich
- Elyiss Williams
- Ethan Barbour
Georgia returns leading tight end receiver Lawson Luckie after a breakout season in 2024. Luckie posted 24 receptions for 348 yards and three touchdowns. Luckie combined with Oscar Delp (second-team All-SEC) gives Georgia two starting caliber Power Four tight ends that could both be 2026 NFL draft picks.
Delp recorded 21 receptions for 248 yards and four touchdowns in a solid, but not spectacular junior campaign. Delp and Luckie are interchangeable as Georgia's top tight end. Delp turned down the 2025 NFL draft to return to Georgia for his senior season.
Kirby Smart on Oscar Delp
"Oscar's (Delp) a great player," coach Kirby Smart said ahead of fall camp. "He's gotten better and better. He has been a better leader. He got one of our most improved boards in terms of work ethic in the weight room and the jumps he made.
"So he knows this is an important year for him, but for him, for us, it's like having a Y that can physically hold up and block, which no tight end likes to hear that, but the NFL loves that, They like to have somebody that's physical at the point of attack and he is strong, he's physical, he's good in play action, he's tough."
More on Georgia's tight end depth
Georgia's projected No. 3 tight end is redshirt freshman Jaden Reddell. Reddell showed flashes in Georgia's 2023 spring game and has a lot of potential as a receiver, but he underwent tightrope surgery on his ankle after spring practice, so we'll see if he's back to 100%. After Reddell is redshirt freshman Colton Heinrich. Heinrich could see action in 2025 as a blocking tight end, but was limited this spring after undergoing surgery.
Georgia signed the nation's No. 4 tight end prospect in 6-foot-7, 235-pound target Elyiss Williams. Williams caught one pass on G-Day will be fun to watch this fall. Georgia signed four-star tight end Ethan Barbour, who has a lot of potential as a pass catcher. Barbour actually led Georgia tight ends in receiving (three catches for 34 yards) on G-Day.
Georgia's 2025 tight end room is loaded with talent and depth. Georgia appears set up for the present and the future at the position.
This article originally appeared on UGA Wire: UGA football tight ends position preview, depth chart
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