Haynes, Rutledge Named Preseason All-ACC – Football — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – Running again Jamal Haynes (Loganville, Ga./Grayson H.S.) and offensive lineman Keylan Rutledge (Royston, Ga./Franklin County H.S.) characterize Georgia Tech on the Atlantic Coast Conference’s 2025 preseason soccer all-conference crew.

In addition to Haynes’ and Rutledge’s inclusion on the 27-player preseason all-conference crew, two Yellow Jackets obtained votes for preseason ACC Player of the Year – senior quarterback Haynes King (Longview, Texas/Longview H.S.), who completed second within the voting behind solely Clemson QB Cade Klubnick, and Haynes, who positioned 12^th.

Haynes enters the ’25 marketing campaign as the primary Georgia Tech working again to hurry for at the very least 900 yards in back-to-back seasons since Jonathan Dwyer in 2008 and 2009. As a junior in 2024, he amassed 1,110 whole yards from scrimmage (944 speeding, 166 receiving) and 12 touchdowns (9 speeding, three receiving), en path to incomes all-ACC recognition for the second-straight 12 months.

As a sophomore in 2023, Haynes moved from vast receiver to working again throughout fall camp and went on to grow to be Georgia Tech’s first 1,000-yard rusher in six years. His 1,257 all-purpose yards in ’23 (1,053 speeding, 151 receiving and 47 on kickoff returns) included 128 within the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl versus UCF. He was named MVP of the Yellow Jackets’ 30-17 Gasparilla Bowl victory.

Rutledge earned first-team all-America honors from Sports Info Solutions in 2024, his first season at Georgia Tech after transferring from Middle Tennessee. He began all 13 video games at proper guard in ’24, regardless of being unable to take part in soccer actions for the whole preseason after sustaining a severe foot damage in a automotive accident in December 2023.

Rutledge earned the all-America recognition on the energy of rating within the prime 10 offensive linemen nationally in SIS’s Total Points metric, together with a top-five nationwide rating in run-blocking Total Points. In cross safety, he had solely two “blown blocks” in practically 400 regular-season makes an attempt, in line with SIS. He additionally helped anchor a Georgia Tech offensive entrance that ranked third nationally in fewest sacks allowed (9 in 13 video games) and paved the way in which for the Yellow Jackets to rank second within the ACC in speeding offense (187.0 ypg).

Earlier this week, Haynes was named to the Maxwell Award watch record (nationwide participant of the 12 months) and Rutledge was included on the Outland Trophy Watch record (nation’s prime inside lineman). Additionally, Rutledge was named second-team preseason all-America by Phil Steele College Football Preview.

Georgia Tech has posted consecutive successful seasons for the primary time in a decade and returns 5 all-ACC honorees from final season’s squad, together with Rutledge, an all-America guard and first-team all-conference choice. Other prime performers returning for the Yellow Jackets in 2025 embody all-ACC choices DT Jordan van den Berg, LB Kyle Efford, Haynes and WR Malik Rutherford, in addition to two of the league’s prime quarterbacks in King and redshirt freshman Aaron Philo.

2025 GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL SEASON TICKETS

2025 Georgia Tech soccer season, mini-plan and single-game tickets are on sale now.

Season tickets embody one of the best seats for the Yellow Jackets’ six-game slate at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, which options Atlantic Coast Conference showdowns versus Clemson, Pitt, Syracuse and Virginia Tech. Georgia Tech season ticket members even have elevated seating precedence for tickets bought for the 2025 version of “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate” versus archrival Georgia, set for Nov. 28 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Tech’s 2025 mini-plan consists of tickets to the house opener versus Gardner-Webb, Hall of Fame Weekend towards Virginia Tech and Senior Day versus Pitt. Mini-plans supply a greater worth than buying seats at single-game costs with out the dedication of a full season ticket.

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Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to attain Georgia Tech athletics’ purpose of competing for championships on the highest stage within the subsequent period of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative initiatives for Tech athletics, together with renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic residence of Georgia Tech soccer), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the follow and coaching facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable residence of Yellow Jackets volleyball), in addition to extra initiatives and initiatives to additional advance Georgia Tech athletics via program wide-operational help. All members of the Georgia Tech group are invited to go to atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full particulars and renderings of the renovation initiatives, in addition to to study alternatives to contribute on-line.

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