Georgia Tech Wide Receiver Zion Taylor Enters The Transfer Portal

Zion Taylor is the latest Georgia Tech player to enter the transfer portal

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Georgia Tech has lost another receiver to the transfer portal. The latest Yellow Jackets pass catcher to announce his intentions of going to the portal is Zion Taylor. Taylor just finished up his redshirt sophomore season and leaves Georgia Tech with 12 career catches for 130 yards and one touchdown.

Georgia Tech WR Zion Taylor is entering the transfer portal.

The 6”0 205 lb WR has 2 years of eligibility left.

Absolute Stud. @_Zion2 pic.twitter.com/jBqx6rdXMJ

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Georgia Tech's wide receiver room is going to look different next season. They are losing Malik Rutherford, Eric Rivers, and Dean Patterson while Taylor and Bailey Stockton are entering the portal.

Big offseason ahead in Atlanta

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With the transfer portal open and Georgia Tech still not having hired an offensive coordinator, the Yellow Jackets have a lot of things to accomplish this offseason.

Since the beginning of the 2025 season, head coach Brent Key has talked about the program making a jump this season and they did. After the loss to BYU last Saturday, Key was asked about the next steps for this program to make another jump:

"I stick by what I say all the time, getting better or getting worse, right? We will head back tonight. I will sleep for a couple of days, like a hibernating bear. I say that. I probably won't.

We have work to do. We have work to do. We have to make sure we have the best roster we can possibly have, put together the best staff that we can possibly have. It will be here fast. As quick as this season went, the next one will be here. We have to continue with the identity that these guys have built. We are rolling into the next one, because we have a lot of work to do.

But the jump, the next one is better than this. It has to be, right? Again, that isn't always dictated by wins and losses. That is dictated by the type of team you have, how you play the game, all those things.

Ultimately, I get it. We are all judged by the wins and losses, but when you put it together the right way, those all become a by-product of having everything in the right place, and the kids all believe in the same thing, and the staff believes in the same thing."

Brent Key has his work cut out for him this off season if Georgia Tech is going to make another jump.

Georgia Tech also has to figure out what it is going to do at quarterback. Aaron Philo was set to follow Haynes King as the starting quarterback, but Philo entered the portal and is going to be playing elsewhere next season. I would expect Georgia Tech to find a quarterback in the transfer portal portal to compete with rising third year QB Graham Knowles. It is fair to expect a dropoff from the level that King played at, but how much?

Key is also going to need to upgrade this roster in a meaningful way. By both the transfer portal and developing the young talent on the roster, this team has to be much better overall, particularly on the defensive side of the football.