{"id":102098,"date":"2025-06-04T01:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/102098\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:33:10","slug":"brother-of-nfl-star-commits-to-kirby-smart-and-georgia-football-in-2026-recruiting-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/102098\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of NFL star commits to Kirby Smart and Georgia football in 2026 recruiting class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirby Smart helped Alabama<\/a> land Minkah Fitzpatrick before he went on to become a five-time Pro Bowl safety in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Now the Georgia football <\/a>coach has secured a commitment from his younger brother, Justice Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n

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The 6-foot-1\/2, 205-pound four-star cornerback from Fort Lauderdale picked the Bulldogs <\/a>over Texas, Ohio State, Florida and Miami, according to his X account on Tuesday, June 3.<\/p>\n

Smart, in 2018, told the recruiting story of Minkah Fitzpatrick to Alabama. Smart and then-Alabama offensive line coach Mario Cristobal were higher on him than coach Nick Saban.<\/p>\n

“[Saban] didn’t like Minkah at one point,” Smart told ESPN.com. “That, to me, was just crazy because Mario Cristobal and I were fighting like hell [for Fitzpatrick]. We thought he was such a good kid.”<\/p>\n

Justice Fitzpatrick, who plays for St. Thomas Aquinas, is the nation\u2019s No. 47 overall prospect and No. 3 cornerback.<\/p>\n

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Minkah Fitzpatrick played at Alabama from 2015-2017, winning the Jim Thorpe Award as nation’s top defensive back in his last season. He was a Dolphins first-round pick, but traded from Miami in 2018. He has played with the Steelers since then.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: NFL star Minkah Fitzpatrick’s brother commits to Georgia football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirby Smart helped Alabama land Minkah Fitzpatrick before he went on to become a five-time Pro Bowl safety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,626,8170,216,7583,6,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-102098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kirby-smart","10":"tag-mario-cristobal","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-minkah-fitzpatrick","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114622523216533199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}