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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2025 Georgia Bill Tracker | Current Status of Closely-Watched Bills
ATLANTA – The Georgia General Assembly is nearing the end of its 40-day legislative session, with lawmakers racing to pass key measures before the session ends on April 4 or “Sine Die.” Legislators are considering bills on education, health care, criminal justice, and more. Once a bill passes out of committee, it must be scheduled by the rules committee for a full chamber vote. If approved, it moves to the other chamber and the process starts again. If either chamber makes changes, the bill must return to the original chamber for final approval before heading to the governor’s desk.
The following is the current status of some of the more closely watch bills. This is not a complete list of all of the bills that are still under consideration. Last updated April 1 (morning).
HOUSE BILLS
HB 136 – Child Tax Credit
- Expands an existing state tax credit for child care expenses.
- Creates a new $250 per-child tax credit for children age 6 and under.
- Adds incentives for businesses to help cover employees’ child care costs.
- Status: Passed House and Senate; returns to House for final approval.
HB 268 – School Safety
- Adds mental health coordinators to schools.
- Ensures swift transfer of student records between districts.
- Sets standards for physical security infrastructure.
- Establishes threat assessment teams.
- Status: Passed both chambers; headed to governor’s desk.
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HB 340 – Personal Device Ban in Schools
- Bans K–8 public school students from using personal electronic devices during the school day.
- Status: Passed both chambers; headed to governor’s desk.
HB 428 – IVF Protections
- Access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment into Georgia law.
- Status: Passed both chambers; headed to governor’s desk.
HB 225 / HB 651 – School Zone Camera Restrictions
- HB 225 would ban school zone speed cameras entirely.
- HB 651 proposes new restrictions on the use of those cameras.
- Status: Passed House.
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HB 123 – Death Penalty and Intellectual Disabilities
- Makes it easier for defendants to prove intellectual disability in death penalty cases.
- Status: Passed both chambers; headed to governor’s desk.
Georgia set to ease strict rules for proving intellectual disability in death penalty cases
HB 551 – Car Booting Regulation
- Prohibits booting companies from paying property owners in exchange for operating in parking lots.
- Status: Passed Senate.
HB 68 – Fiscal Year 2026 Budget
- $37.7 billion budget effective July 1, 2025.
- Includes funding for: School voucher program, capital projects at public universities, budget increase for the Department of Corrections.
- Status: Passed House.
SENATE BILLS
SB 1 – Transgender Girls in Sports
- Bans transgender girls from participating in girls’ teams in public schools, private schools competing with them, and state colleges.
- Status: Passed both chambers; headed to governor’s desk.
Georgia General Assembly passes bill banning trans athletes from women’s sports
SB 74 – Explicit Materials in Libraries
- Makes it a crime for public or school libraries to distribute sexually explicit material to minors.
- Allows librarians a legal defense if they made a good-faith effort to remove harmful content.
- Status: Passed Senate.
Georgia bill seeks penalties for librarians over restricted books
SB 123 – Chronic Absenteeism
- Prevents schools from expelling students solely for chronic absences.
- Requires school climate committees to develop solutions.
- Status: Passed both chambers; headed to governor’s desk.
SB 28 – State Rule Review
- Requires state agencies to review their rules every four years.
- Expands legislative oversight of agency regulations.
- Status: Passed Senate.
SB 36 – Religious Freedom Restoration Act
- Prohibits the government from burdening religious exercise unless it serves a “compelling government interest” and is done in the “least restrictive” way.
- Status: Passed Senate.
Georgia Republican-led Senate passes controversial Religious Freedom Bill
SB 39 – Gender-Affirming Care Coverage
- Prevents Georgia’s state health insurance plan from covering gender-affirming care for public employees, teachers and retirees.
- Status: Passed Senate.
SB 30 – Puberty Blockers
- Limits the use of puberty-blocking medications for minors experiencing gender dysphoria.
- Status: Passed Senate.
SB 69 – Civil Litigation Overhaul
- A major tort reform package championed by Gov. Brian Kemp.
- Limits civil lawsuits and changes litigation rules statewide.
- Status: Passed both chambers; headed to governor’s desk.
Georgia tort reform bill: House of Representatives passes controversial bill
SB 21 – Sovereign Immunity Reform
- Allows lawsuits against local governments if harm is tied to failure to enforce state immigration laws.
- Status: Passed Senate.
SB 244 – Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted / Legal Fees
- Provides $75,000 per year for each year someone was wrongfully imprisoned.
- Also reimburses defendants’ legal fees if a district attorney is disqualified from a case.
- Status: Passed Senate.
Georgia’s reimbursement bill would allow Trump to recover costs
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.
Georgia Tech didn’t let the weekend get away.
The No. 2 Yellow Jackets were flying high with a 13-game win streak heading into the weekend showdown against No. 3 North Carolina. The Tar Heels took the first two games, but Tech salvaged the finale 5-2 on Sunday.
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