3-star Rabun Gap DL Marcellus Young Casario commits to Georgia football

Young Casario, a 3-star defensive lineman, just took his official visit to check out UGA this past weekend. It didn’t take him long to become the 16th commitment of the 2027 class in Athens. Young Casario announced his commitment to UGA Monday evening on his Instagram.

He’s the nation’s No. 70 DL and the No. 553 overall prospect for 2027 on the 247Sports Composite. The Rivals Industry Ranking has him as the No. 54 EDGE and No. 521 overall.

The Rabun Gap standout, who’s currently battling back from a junior year hip labrum injury, announced his commitment to UGA on Monday evening via his social Instagram. The injury happened right around the midpoint of the season. He tried to fight back from it and even played some in the playoffs.

It was a six-month rehab process. The Rabun Gap staff told DawgNation that Young Casario has now just gotten cleared to start working his way back.

He’s still quite new to his football journey. He hasn’t been playing long. But he has physical attributes that make him stand out.

Young reportedly measured in at 6-foot-6 and 270 pounds in Athens this weekend. He also touts an 85-inch wingspan. The Canadian native chose the Bulldogs over a strong interest in Georgia Tech.

“What sticks out to me first is how ginormous he is,” Rabun Gap coach Derek White said. “He’s a man. His length. His development down the road. Then how his body is going to keep changing. He’s just so long he hasn’t been able to put the mass on.”

With this decision, he now pushes Georgia’s national class ranking from No. 21 to No. 14 overall on the 247Sports team rankings. He was the second verbal commitment of the day for the Dawgs. He’s the highest-rated of Georgia’s two current defensive line commits this cycle.

What are the Dawgs getting in Young Casario?

“Tray Scott called me,” Rabun Gap’s White said. “Number one, we took him to camp prior and they saw how big he was. All those things. We just knew how Georgia loves size. Size and physicality are huge for them. Tray just talked about how explosive his first step was. Being that big and that long and getting his hands into you and how explosive that first step was for him.”

White thinks he can play up and down the line in Athens.

“I think his overall projection is he becomes a 5-technique and works his way in,” he said. “He’s a heavy (five-tech), and he’s what every NFL team wants out of a 3-technique or a 4 technique. Just length and size with the size that can stop the run is a problem.”

Georgia also flipped 4-star Tennessee WR Jamir Dean from Penn State earlier Monday.