From the UGA board - just as everyone knew.. Just took the visits for vacations....
The commitment of
Darnell Washington was over privately for months. I am skeptical of times with silent commits, but this one stuck. In fact UGA staff felt so good on this one, they did not have a problem with him visiting Tennessee last. That is when I knew this was with done.
Todd Hartley did a very good job with this five-star TE from Las Vegas as the lead recruiter for Georgia.
His coach called me in late August and talked with me about doing a commitment video for Georgia. I also talked with Darnell about his ideas for a video. Few weeks later, he decided to wait until the UA Game to do it on national television. I did a CB a few days after that call.
Others recruited him hard and I am sure it was close at times, but Georgia led the entire season here on him according to people very close to this and people in Las Vegas besides his staff.
Georgia needs TE's in a bad way and they are about to add a very talented 6-foot-7.5 one to the room for the 2020 season.
"It was close," Washington said. "I would say Florida was No. 2 because of Coach
Larry Scott. I just felt better at Georgia. My mom loved Tennessee a lot and she was kind of down for a bit, but she is all in now."