2022 MDJ
DYNAMITE
DOZEN
By John Bednarowski
sportseditor@mdjonline.com
Cobb County has become a large
bastian of college football talent,
and this year is no different.
The 2022 Marietta Daily Journal
Dynamite Dozen is made up
of six four-star recruits and seven
three-stars.
All nine players who have committed
are heading to Power 5
programs, including two to Arkansas
and two to North Carolina.
Two more are heading to the
Big Ten at Michigan and Wisconsin,
two will be in the ACC
at Duke and G eoriga Tech, and
one at South Carolina of the SEC.
O f the four players who have yet
to commit, three are j uniors and the
lone uncommitted senior was expected
to announce where he was playing
his college football in early August,
after K ickoff ’22 went to press.
Those four remaining uncommitted
players have a combined
total of 86 offers with 70 being
from Power 5 programs.
While these 13 players, a baker’s
dozen as an homage to my wife
who is a pastry chef, may be considered
the top 13 players in the
county, it certainly wasn’t a cutand
dry decision.
We begin compiling our potentil
MDJ Dynamite Dozen list as soon
as the previous season is over. By
the time school is out there are
sometimes as many as 50 players
we then have to whittle down to 13.
I can tell you, it is not an easy
decision. There are another 15 or so
three-star athletes who could have
made the final cut this year, and
many others who are close behind.
O ne thing that is new with this
year’s group is an opportunity to
get to know them a little better.
O n each athlete’s page is a Q R
code. Hold the camera of your
phone over the code, click on the
link, and it will take you to a short
interview and highlight package of
each member of this year’s class.
We hope this interactive offering
is a benefit to you and them alike.
It’s finally football season, and
it will be fun to see how these
young men progress.
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