If you want proof that context matters in NFL Draft evaluation, look no further than Christen Miller’s career arc at Georgia. He arrived in Athens as a four-star recruit and spent his first two years buried behind first-round picks Jordan Davis, Devonte Wyatt, and Jalen Carter — three players who all heard their names called on Day 1.
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Fulton judges stay busy ruling on lawsuits spurred by new Georgia State Election Board rules • Georgia Recorder
A lawsuit filed by the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections seeks to prevent the State Election Board from appointing several election monitors for the Nov. 5 election.
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, Fulton’s election board claims that the Georgia State Election Board is pressuring it to appoint multiple additional election monitors. The plaintiffs argue that the five-member state panel lacks the statutory authority to force the county to hire and pay for extra election monitors to add to the team it already appointed to oversee the 2024 election.
The lawsuit is one of several filed in recent weeks contesting the rules changes approved by three right-wing state election officials who support GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
On May 7, Fulton County was admonished by the panel that oversees how counties conduct elections and ordered a monitor for this year’s campaigns. The state board voted to reprimand Fulton and appoint an independent monitor for the 2024 election,accusing county officials of violating state law while conducting a recount of the 2020 presidential election.
President Joe Biden’s narrow 2020 election in Georgia was confirmed by multiple recounts and audits and withstood many court challenges.
Georgia secretary of state officials determined mistakes by county election workers would not have changed the outcome of the 2020 election but were unable to determine how many invalid ballots were included in the results used to certify the election.
According to the lawsuit, the State Election Board is pushing to force the Fulton election board to “capitulate” to the appointment of several additional state-appointed election monitors. A flurry of last-minute efforts are being made to drastically affect Nov. 5 general elections, according to the plaintiffs’ complaint.
The lawsuit alleges that Republican State Election Board Member Janice Johnston warned in October that the state board would have no choice but to “disavow” the county if it refused to hire additional election monitors.
Johnston emailed the Fulton election board chairman on Oct. 1 calling for the board to accept eight additional monitors.
Johnston and her two allies suggest that Fulton add Heather Honey, who previously worked with the Cyber Ninjas, a company that employed questionable audit practices of 2020 election results in Arizona. They also recommended Frank Ryan, who refused to certify election results in the past. Honey and Ryan distrust the results of the 2020 election
The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County and appoint an independent monitor for the 2024 election for violating state law while conducting a recount of the 2020 presidential election. Democrat Joe Biden narrowly defeated GOP nominee Donald Trump by nearly 12,000 votes in Georgia for the 2020 presidential race.
In 2023, a Georgia election board with several different members rejected a state takeover of Fulton ballot counting following a lengthy performance review after the tumultuous 2020 presidential election spurred conspiracy theories and brought national attention to Georgia’s most populated county.
The independent panel’s report did not find any proof of election workers engaging in intentional misconduct but noted Fulton elections new leadership role is now resolving past problems with managerial oversight, disorganization and mistakes in recounting ballots.
Election Board ethics complaint dismissed
A Fulton County judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by several Democratic public officials against Gov. Brian Kemp over his refusal to order ethics hearings for three Republican State Election Board members.
One of the state lawmakers behind the lawsuit vowed to appeal after the dismissal.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville said Wednesday that the lawsuit filed by three Democratic elected officials was insufficient to advance the case. Glaville said an official investigation into the State Election Board’s actions should have been conducted before the lawsuit was filed in September against GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.
In September, Democratic officials sued to remove the three Trump loyalists on the State Election Board for revising election rules and holding an illegal meeting. The board also includes a Democrat and chairman who have voted against several rules supported by the Trump loyalists.
In its lawsuit, the plaintiffs asked the Fulton court to order Kemp to hold a hearing to determine if three board members singled out for praise by Trump at an Atlanta rally violated ethics laws through pushing through new rules that undermine public trust prior to the Nov. 5 election.
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(WSAV) — The man accused of shooting and killing three people in Dekalb County April 13 was found dead in his jail cell, officials confirmed Monday night.
Olaolukitan Adon-Abel was found unresponsive in his jail cell at 6:48 p.m., a Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said. Life-saving measures were performed, according to officials.
He was pronounced dead at 7:17 p.m.
Adon-Abel was charged with malice murder, aggravated assault and firearms counts in connection to the shooting deaths of Prianna Weathers, Tony Mathews and Lauren Bullis.
In 2025, Adon-Abel plead guilty in Chatham County Recorder’s Court to multiple misdemeanor counts of sexual battery for groping women in Chatham County under the name Adon Olaolukitan.
According to court documents, he was banned from Savannah for four years and ordered to undergo a psychosexual evaluation.
The official cause will be determined by the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office, and a standard internal review has been launched, according to officials.
At this time, the sheriff’s office said there are no indications of foul play. No additional details were released.
The defensive tackle assembly line at Georgia is nothing short of extraordinary, and Miller patiently waited his turn. By 2024, his turn had arrived, and what NFL scouts saw was a prototypically built interior defender who carries his 321-pound frame with impressive athleticism and natural leverage.
Miller’s greatest asset is his run defense. He is a solid anchor — quick to press his hands into blockers, disciplined about maintaining gap integrity, and stout enough to hold the point of attack against double teams that would cave lesser prospects — but he’s not dominant.
His lateral mobility is a genuine differentiator for a man his size; he can scrape down the line to close on outside runs or loop inside on stunts without losing his footing or pad level.
That combination of power and movement is why Georgia trusted him on the field for passing downs, and it’s why scouts project him as an immediate contributor against the run at the NFL level.
The legitimate questions surrounding Miller center on his pass-rush production and his still-developing anticipation skills. Over his entire collegiate career, he accumulated only four sacks — never cracking two in a single season.
Still, Miller’s athleticism stands out immediately — he carries his size well and shows the lateral quickness you don’t always find at his frame. His hands have some pop, and he’s flashed the ability to jolt interior linemen off their spot. But he’s a prospect defined more by his floor than his ceiling.
No single trait rises above average, which means his pass-rush production will hinge on technique and motor rather than any physical advantage. He also needs to improve as a finisher — getting close isn’t enough at the next level.
The traits for pass-rush development are present: he has good first-step quickness, flashes as a one-gap penetrator, and showed enough in stunt packages to keep offensive linemen honest. But he has yet to build a consistent, go-to counter move when his initial rush is neutralized. Against better competition, his reaction time to the snap can be late, and he can drift out of his gap assignment when he tries to freelance for a big play.
What Miller offers any franchise is a high floor with a realistic upside trajectory. He comes from one of college football’s most technically demanding defensive line programs, coached by coaches who regularly develop NFL talent.
He plays with a motor that never stops. He competed in SEC trenches for two-plus seasons and was named to the All-SEC First Team as a senior. The experience and winning culture he brings — two state championships in high school, a national championship at Georgia — will matter to coaches who value locker-room character.
The ceiling here isn’t flashy, but it’s tangible: a reliable, two-down starting defensive tackle who keeps blocks clean and lets linebackers run free. In a league that increasingly prizes versatile, multi-technique interior linemen, Miller’s ability to play the nose or the B-gap makes him a schematic asset for even-front and two-gap systems. Don’t sleep on him because his sack totals are modest — evaluating him solely by that metric would miss the forest for the trees.
Miller’s fit in Green Bay is an interesting one. The Packers are switching to a 3-4 base defense under new defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon, and they lack a proven run-stuffing nose tackle while being long overdue for a meaningful investment on the defensive interior — which is exactly the profile Miller fits.
The team brought him in for a pre-draft visit, signaling genuine interest, and his skill set maps cleanly onto what Green Bay needs. His calling card — an elite run defense grade that ranked second among all FBS defensive tackles — translates directly to what Gannon will ask of his interior linemen, and his versatility to play nose in an odd front or kick out to three-technique in sub packages only adds to the appeal.
NORCROSS, GEORGIA — Geoff Duncan, former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, won’t stop apologizing.
He’s sorry for supporting the state’s 2019 “heartbeat bill,” which bans abortion at around six weeks, after a fetal heartbeat is detected. He’s sorry for facilitating the passage of a “constitutional carry” bill in 2022, which allows most people to carry a concealed handgun with no license or background check. He’s also sorry for opposing Medicaid expansion, arguing at the time that it was not fiscally responsible.
“I’m sorry for those positions and any harm that they may have done,” Duncan told me.
Duncan first rose to prominence as one of the Republicans who resisted President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s narrow 2020 win in Georgia. Duncan has been speaking out against what he calls Trump’s “toxic” and “dangerous” Republican Party since leaving office in 2023, and even endorsed Kamala Harris and spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 2024. After being excommunicated from the Georgia Republican Party in January 2025, Duncan switched parties in August. He is now running for governor as a Democrat in what will be one of the most closely watched races in the midterms.
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