Georgia football recruiting: Bulldogs land four-star in-state edge rusher Chase Linton

Georgia football added another coveted in-state piece to its 2025 recruiting haul on Wednesday when it landed a commitment from a four-star edge rusher.

North Atlanta’s Chase Linton announced his pledge to Georgia over Rutgers, where he was previously committed, and Georgia Tech. He played around at his ceremony like he was going to pick the other schools before finally revealing that he picked the Bulldogs and put on a Georgia cap and showed a Bulldogs shirt.

“Go Dawgs!” he said in an announcement streamed on Instagram.

The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Linton is ranked as the nation’s No. 180 overall prospect and No. 17 edge rusher by the 247 Sports Composite.

“He has a heck of a burst for a guy for his height and his size,” North Atlanta football assistant coach Bryce Doe, who coached Linton the last three years as head track and field coach, told the Athens Banner-Herald. “He hasn’t run a lot of running events in track and field, but I can tell you for the first 60 meters he’s just as fast as any kid out there. He’s just as fast as any DB or receiver for the first 60 meters.”

Linton was third in the region in the triple jump last year at 44.85 and finished a spot outside of qualifying for the state meet.

“He came in just as tall as he is now, but he was kind of awkward and uncoordinated is a good way to describe him in his first year,” Doe said.

Linton started to show his speed and explosion as a sophomore, Doe said, “and started to put it together.”

Linton, this season, had 51 tackles including 31 solos with 16 tackles for loss and 9 sacks.

He’s the 26th commitment for Georgia’s 2025 class.