{"id":693024,"date":"2026-06-09T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693024\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:00:19","slug":"karlos-may-i-almost-wanted-to-commit-on-georgia-football-official-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693024\/","title":{"rendered":"Karlos May: \u2018I almost wanted to commit\u2019 on Georgia football official visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Sentell\u2019s Intel rep on Georgia football recruiting<\/a> has the latest with 4-star Karlos May at Ramsay High School in Birmingham. He\u2019s the nation\u2019s No. 22 DL and the No. 182 overall prospect for 2027 on the 247Sports Composite. The Rivals Industry Ranking has him as the No. 17 DL and No. 165 overall. <\/p>\n

Karlos May did more than just say that Georgia football was his new No. 1 school after his recent official visit. <\/p>\n

May said he had a moment in Athens this weekend.<\/p>\n

That was when the chill bumps came. Or when the hair on the back of his sizable neck started to stand straight up. <\/p>\n

It was brought on after a meeting with Georgia defensive line coach Tray Scott. <\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that meeting,\u201d he said. \u201cI just kind of sat down for a minute and said\u201a \u2018I knew Georgia was the place.\u2019 It was the place. You can see why they win games. Just because coach Scott has developed a lot of people.\u201d <\/p>\n

That was the best part of his visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI almost wanted to commit on the spot, actually,\u201d May said. \u201cBut I changed my mind. I said I was going to do what I said I would. Go through all my visits. Things like that. But I definitely felt that way.\u201d <\/p>\n

That was during the day. Then he went out with the guys on the team later that night. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen the next morning, when I woke up, I said this is the place to be,\u201d May said. \u201cHonestly, I almost did it, but I had to think about it. I had to take all the rest of my visits. It might, you don\u2019t know, it might have been just an emotional thing. Being off emotions or the way I felt about a school, but nah, I still think about Georgia like that. Even a day after I left my visit.\u201d <\/p>\n

He said that feeling was new for him. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never felt that way at a school before,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s really why I felt that was real. I\u2019ve never felt that way before.\u201d <\/p>\n

May was shrewd in how he looked at one specific aspect of Scott\u2019s resume. <\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of people can say who all they sent to the league,\u201d May said. \u201cBut most of the time it has just been the school or the coach previous to them, but Coach Scott can really say that because he\u2019s developed all those guys because he\u2019s been there going on for what eight or nine years.\u201d <\/p>\n

Scott joined Kirby Smart\u2019s staff at UGA in January of 2017. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe can say that he\u2019s developed all those [NFL] guys that have come in,\u201d May said. \u201cI just think with my skill set and my mindset that I have of facing challenges and facing hard work, that I can be next up.\u201d<\/p>\n

May has also taken an official to FSU. The Dawgs are considered to be in a fight here with Auburn. Ohio State is also looming. <\/p>\n

\u201cMan, I love Georgia,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are in my number one spot right now, recruiting-wise. I just want to keep going forward, keep building that relationship with them and just take it from there.\u201d <\/p>\n

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4-star Class of 2027 DL plays for Ramsay High School in Birmingham. He’s one of the top targets for Georgia this cycle. He poses here on his UGA official visit photo shoot. (Courtesy photo) (Courtesy photo\/Dawgnation)<\/p>\n

Karlos May breaks down his Georgia football official visit<\/p>\n

It was the sort of visit that defines a recruiting story.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, Georgia picked up steam with me this weekend by basically showing me exactly what I needed to see,\u201d May said. \u201cI kind of got the chance to see everything I needed, whether it was just the details on how I would be used there. I got a chance to see exactly everything and how I would be used for the scheme.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThey just showed me I was a priority and they did a good job showing me that this weekend. That was definitely important to me.\u201d <\/p>\n

There were so many details. There was the fact that his phone got lit up by reporters on the UGA beat yesterday. But he didn\u2019t mind it. <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, they are, but I love Georgia, so I\u2019m willing to respond to any questions,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t have just one official visit host. The fact that the entire Georgia defensive line hosted 4-star Florida DL Tyler Alexander, himself and UGA commit Waylon Wooten on that official visit impressed him. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe got a chance to be around those guys,\u201d May said. \u201cThat\u2019s another thing that kind of hyped me up about them. Just seeing their relationships up close and the way that they communicated with each other. It was just good. You can tell they\u2019ve got a bond and they are all going to go in there and they are going to go hard every day.\u201d <\/p>\n

He ate so much that he gained about seven or eight pounds, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cBefore all of that steak, I was probably like 316 pounds,\u201d he said while laughing. \u201cWhen they weighed me in, I was like 320-something. They waited until I had finished eating all that food to weigh me in. I was like \u2018Maaaannnn\u2019 when they did that.\u201d <\/p>\n

May felt a jolt of electricity when he tried out that UGA gear. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I suited up, I felt like I was going to run right out of the huddle,\u201d May said. \u201cI was feeling like I was going to run out of the tunnel, man. When I put that No. 52 on, I was like, \u2018Oh yeah, it is time to go to work.\u2019 I was just so excited. I don\u2019t know, man. It just felt like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, bro, which it is. I was really excited. I\u2019m not going to lie.\u201d <\/p>\n

He wears No. 52 in honor of Ray Lewis. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen how No. 52 looks at Georgia,\u201d May said. \u201cLike a lot of the guys there wore it. Like [Christen] Miller, who just left there, who had No. 52 on. It just looked good.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat number will fit me, bro. For real.\u201d <\/p>\n

The visit clearly showed him the two big things he loves the most about UGA. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe stability and the development,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

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4-star Class of 2027 DL plays for Ramsay High School in Birmingham. He’s one of the top targets for Georgia this cycle. He poses here on his UGA official visit photo shoot. (Courtesy photo) (Courtesy photo\/Dawgnation)<\/p>\n

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4-star Class of 2027 DL plays for Ramsay High School in Birmingham. He’s one of the top targets for Georgia this cycle. He poses here on his UGA official visit photo shoot. (Courtesy photo) (Courtesy photo\/Dawgnation)<\/p>\n

The weekly DawgNation.com \u201cBefore the Hedges\u201d program is available as an Apple podcast.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Karlos May: What happens next from here with the 4-star DL?<\/p>\n

May said he thought about it, but he eventually decided he would take his two remaining visits to Auburn and Ohio State. <\/p>\n

The home state Auburn Tigers are up next on the weekend of June 12. Ohio State will then get the next weekend on June 19. <\/p>\n

He\u2019d previously established a commitment timeline of August 12. That is now fluid. <\/p>\n

\u201cI told some guys yesterday that it might get changed,\u201d he said. \u201cIt might stay the same. But if it gets changed, it would definitely be moved up.\u201d<\/p>\n

His mother, Kandyce, was already dialed in on all things UGA back when he took a spring practice visit. <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like my family has seen everything they needed to see, but a couple more of my family members need to get down, too,\u201d he said. \u201cMy uncle, he\u2019s a big part of my recruitment, he wants to see some stuff because he had a wedding he had to attend. So he missed [his official visit weekend at UGA] because of the wedding. He missed the visit, but he\u2019s going to make sure he sees exactly what we saw this weekend and we\u2019re just going to go from there.\u201d <\/p>\n

How hard will it be for somebody to knock them off that top spot? <\/p>\n

\u201cMan, they set the bar about 10 times higher,\u201d May said. \u2018Any other schools that I visit, they are going to definitely have to pull out the red carpet.” <\/p>\n

Have you subscribed to the DawgNation YouTube channel? If so, you will see special 1-on-1 content with key 2027 recruits like Jaxon Dollar, Chance Gilbert, Joakim Gouda and Kemon Spell.<\/a><\/p>\n

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4-star Class of 2027 DL plays for Ramsay High School in Birmingham. He’s one of the top targets for Georgia this cycle. He poses here on his UGA official visit photo shoot. (Courtesy photo) (Courtesy photo\/Dawgnation)<\/p>\n

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4-star Class of 2027 DL plays for Ramsay High School in Birmingham. He’s one of the top targets for Georgia this cycle. He poses here on his UGA official visit photo shoot. (Courtesy photo) (Courtesy photo\/Dawgnation)<\/p>\n

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4-star Class of 2027 DL plays for Ramsay High School in Birmingham. He’s one of the top targets for Georgia this cycle. He poses here on his UGA official visit photo shoot. (Courtesy photo) (Courtesy photo\/Dawgnation)<\/p>\n

Check out this week\u2019s \u201cBefore the Hedges\u201d weekly Georgia football recruiting special on YouTube below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Sentell\u2019s Intel rep on Georgia football recruiting has the latest with 4-star Karlos May at Ramsay High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,6606,6603,6602,300539,398,396,397,300538,99,6605,6604],"class_list":["post-693024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-georgia-football","tag-georgia-football-recruiting","tag-georgia-recruiting","tag-karlos-may","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-ramsay-high-football","tag-sports","tag-uga-football-recruiting","tag-uga-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}