Cannady played in two games for the Bulldogs last season. He was not a fellow and is from Macon, Georgia.
That Cannady played such an important role in the Georgia defense on Saturday speaks to where the Bulldogs are in the secondary school right now. Tykee Smith and Kamari Lassiter missed scrimmage with injuries while Javon Bullard left the game with a shoulder injury.
Georgia played three true freshmen in Cannady’s second team as Daylen Everette, Jacorey Thomas and Malaki Starks made their debuts on Saturday. Georgia will invite Jaheim Singletary and Julian Humphrey as summer entrants from the 2022 signing class this offseason.
“We have to get better in secondary school to get where we’re going and we have some guys that are coming, but we have to get the guys that are here to go here and that’s our job as coach,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said.
Cannady is the second player to make a move after spring training. Defender Tymon Mitchell enters the transfer portal on Tuesday. At the beginning of the offseason, defensemen Latavious Brini, Ameer Speed and Jalen Kimber made changes in Georgia.
“We will coach the guys who want to be here,” said Smart on the transfer portal. “The guys who don’t do that, we won’t go after them. We can not. This is her destiny. We’re trying to create a culture where I want to be here and grow and get better.”