Georgia the Latest Team to Offer 2019 Recruit Owen Pappoe

Owen Pappoe's first day of high school is not until August, but that hasn't stopped him from piling up the college scholarship offers.

Georgia became the ninth FBS program to offer the 14-year-old a scholarship, getting in on what is already shaping up to be a major battle for one of the top prospects of the 2019 recruiting class.

The Bulldogs join Auburn, Boston College, Kentucky, Miami (Fla.), Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia in the chase to land Pappoe, who is already 6'1" and 194 pounds.

Georgia offered Pappoe while he was in Athens for a seven-on-seven tournament at the school with his future teammates from Grayson High School in Loganville, Georgia. That's the same high school that produced Ole Miss defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche, the No. 1 player in the 2013 class.

BC was the first to offer Pappoe back in April, with Tennessee coming along soon thereafter. He's made unofficial visits to Auburn, Louisville and Ohio State.

"Pappoe has said that the Vols are his dream school and that he intended to commit if Tennessee offered, and now that they have, we will have to watch and see how things go," Rivals.com's Woody Wommack wrote in April.

Pappoe is listed as a linebacker, though Wommack wrote in May that he'd been working out at safety and performed well at a camp in Atlanta in March.

"That showing added to a resume that already included impressive middle school film and standout All-Star Game performances and helped coin the nickname 'freak' for him because he looks like a man among boys on the field," Wommack wrote.

Considering he's probably got much more growing to do—and the fact he's only been playing football for two years, according to Scout.com's Chad Simmons—it's unknown what position he'll end up playing in college.

With this many high-profile programs already after his services, and no doubt more set to join the hunt in the near future, odds are what he develops into will determine where he ends up going to school.

Unless otherwise noted, recruiting information courtesy of 247Sports.

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