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Four-star athlete Jaymest Williams is taking an official visit to UGA this weekend. Williams is currently a South Carolina commit.

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With the 2017 recruiting cycle winding down, players from across the country are filling out their official visits and making 11th hour stopover at universities vying for their services. It’s a vibrant time that tends to bring about intriguing subplots – one of which is taking place in the SEC East between UGA and South Carolina.

Four-star athlete Jaymest Williams will be in Athens this weekend to officially visit with the Bulldogs. A South Carolina commit since late August, Williams has been projected as a hardline Gamecock. However, here comes Kirby Smart and, arguably, the hottest closing program on the circuit trying to pry Williams away.

Hailing from Loganville, Georgia and having played for state powerhouse Grayson, Williams is ranked as the No. 5 ATH in the 2017 class and No. 86 overall player. He’s viewed as a secondary player or nickleback, and has drawn comparisons to Tyrann Mathieu – essentially a rover who can cover all parts of the field. A boon to any class.

Were UGA to flip Williams, he’d make the third athlete in Kirby Smart’s first full recruiting cycle with the Dawgs, joining 5-star DeAngelo Gibbs and 4-star Tray Bishop. The move would also serve as another reminder that UGA is locking down the borders – something Smart emphasized from Day 1, as there was clamoring that previous head coach Mark Richt had fallen out of favor with several in-state high school coaches. Currently, 18 of the 23 commits in UGA’s second-ranked class are from within the Georgia state lines.

As for South Carolina, holding on to Williams is immeasurable. He is the Gamecocks’ highest ranked high school commit, as well as the only athlete in a 2017 class that’s shaping up to finish in the top 20.

Toss in that both Will Muschamp and Kirby Smart are coming off moderately successful first year’s at their new jobs, the three-hour distance between Athens and Columbia, the relatively wide-open SEC East race next season, and that both coaches are limbs from the Nick Saban tree, and we have yet another intriguing battle on the recruiting trail.

Williams will take an official visit to South Carolina on January 28, four days before National Signing Day.

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