Georgia football wide receiver Colbie Young reinstated from 2024 suspension

ATHENS, Ga.

Wide receiver Colbie Young has been reinstated to the Georgia football team, following the resolution of a domestic assault arrest last fall that caused him to be suspended five games into the 2024 season .

Georgia coach Kirby Smart confirmed Youngs return on Tuesday, saying the senior had fulfilled program and school obligations, along with his case being resolved.

Advertisement Young pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct in January, receiving 12 months of probation as part of a plea deal with the Athens-Clarke County solicitors office.

Young was arrested in early October on misdemeanor charges of battery and assault after his former girlfriend, who was pregnant, told police that Young physically removed her from his apartment.

Georgia suspended Young indefinitely.

The woman retracted the statement less than a month later.

The Title IX office eventually cleared Young to return to the team, and he did in a limited capacity at practice in November.

But with the court case unresolved, Young missed the rest of the season.

That was set to be the last year of Youngs college eligibility, but then came the Diego Pavia decision: Pavia sued the NCAA, asking that his two years at junior college not count toward his four-year eligibility at the NCAA level.

After a court granted Pavia an injunction, the NCAA gave a blanket waiver to all current players who had played at a junior college, which includes Young, who spent his first year out of high school at Lackawanna College, a junior college in Pennsylvania.

He spent the next two years at Miami before transferring to Georgia for the 2024 season.

In five games last year, the 6-foot-3 Young started twice and emerged as a red zone and third-down option.

He was the intended receiver on Carson Becks intercepted pass in the final minute of the loss at Alabama.

Young had three catches for 57 yards in that game, then three catches for 51 yards the next week against Auburn, his final game.

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