Georgia adds tight end Benjamin Yurosek via transfer portal
Stanford tight end Benjamin Yurosek announced his commitment to Georgia on Friday, becoming the Bulldogs’ seventh addition out of the transfer portal.
A graduate transfer from the Cardinal, Yurosek was selected as an All-Pac 12 player in both 2021 and 2022 as he totaled 1,342 receiving yards and five touchdowns in 35 career games on 108 catches. He also added 114 yards on 14 rushing attempts. Yurosek missed half of his final season at Stanford due to injury.
The 6-foot-4, 242-pound Bakersfield, Calif. native’s best career outing came against Hawaii in 2023 as he caught nine passes for 138 yards and a score in the season-opener. It was the second 100-yard day for him in his career after going for 118 yards on six catches against Arizona State in 2021. Yurosek followed that up with back-to-back 90+ yard days as a part of what was his best season, totaling 42 catches, 653 yards and three touchdowns in 2021. He also had an impressive day in a win over the Sun Devils in 2022 with 10 grabs.
Yurosek joins a Georgia tight end room that features returnees Oscar Delp, Lawson Luckie and Pearce Spurlin, plus a pair of true freshmen Jaden Reddell and Colton Heinrich.
Delp played in all 14 games for Georgia, starting 11 of them, and totaled 284 yards receiving with three touchdowns on 24 catches. As true freshmen, Luckie and Spurlin combined for five catches on the season, totaling 69 yards and a touchdown from Luckie in the Orange Bowl. Both were top-10 ranked tight ends in the Class of 2023 on the heels of Delp, the No. 2 tight end in 2022. Meanwhile, both Reddell (No. 4 TE for C/O ’24) and Heinrich enrolled early and were with the team as early as for bowl preparations, winter workouts and spring practice.
Of course the Bulldogs have to replace All-American tight end Brock Bowers, who led the team in receiving each of the last three seasons. It’s not likely that they’ll find an exact replica of him – or that you’ll see a tight end leading the team in receiving in 2024 – but the addition of Yurosek along with the untapped potential of what’s returning does leave Todd Hartley’s room in good shape.
Yurosek is the seventh transfer portal addition for Georgia this offseason after the Bulldogs went to the portal for help on both sides of the ball. Vanderbilt wide receiver London Humphreys was the first to commit, starting a run that saw South Carolina defensive lineman Xzavier McLeod, Miami wide receiver Colbie Young and Florida running back Trevor Etienne join shortly after. USC wide receiver Michael Jackson III and Alabama defensive back Jake Pope also came on board.
Yurosek, the son of a pair of former Colorado State athletes (father, Derek, played football and mother, Kellie, played volleyball), will finish his degree in Science, Tech. and Society at Stanford this spring and join the team in Athens for summer workouts.
