How Georgia football tapped into pipeline for European talent

Tray Scott never needed to take a long-haul flight on Lufthansa to get to Berlin for a home visit with JJ Hanne. The Georgia football defensive line coach hasn’t traveled to the coastal city of Malmo in the south of Sweden where Valdin Sone grew up either. So how did Hanne and Sone get from Europe to play for one of the nation’s marquee programs, one that attracts some of the top recruits every year? Brandon Collier, who founded PPI Recruits, helped connect them with Georgia. He began building a relationship with the coaching staff in recent years. “As you know, they’re not really recruiting those European guys,” Collier said by phone from Wiesbaden, Germany, where he lives outside of...