THE FLATS – Senior quarterback Haynes King (Longview, Texas/Longview H.S.) is Georgia Tech’s nominee for the 2025 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, the American Football Coaches Association announced this week.
The Allstate AFCA Good Works Team recognizes players from all levels of college football for their commitment to community service and leadership beyond the gridiron.
Voted a permanent team captain by his teammates in each of his first two seasons at Georgia Tech, King has volunteered his time to a number of community service initiatives in Atlanta, including:
- Children’s Hospital of Atlanta, where he is a regular visitor to spend time with patients;
- the 2023 and 2024 Georgia Tech Student-Athlete Advisory Board Michael Isenhour Toy Drives, helping collect and deliver donations to Atlanta Children’s Shelter;
- the 2024 and 2025 404 Day of Service in Atlanta, helping lead the efforts behind Georgia Tech football’s involvement in community service projects throughout the city;
- Centennial Academy Charter School, where he has served as a celebrity book reader;
- as a volunteer youth football camp counselor.
Additionally, he is a published children’s book author, having penned Haynes King: A Helluva Quarterback, which chronicles his journey to becoming one of the nation’s top quarterbacks and encourages young people to follow their dreams.
On the field, King enters the season ranked as one of the nation’s top 10 quarterbacks by ESPN.com. In just two seasons as a Yellow Jacket, he has moved into the top 10 in school history in passing yards (4,956 – sixth), total offense (6,280 yards – fifth), touchdown passes (41 – t-fourth) and touchdowns responsible for (62 – t-fourth).
Last season, he became the first NCAA Division I FBS player in at least 69 years (dating back to 1956) with no less than 2,000 passing yards, 10 touchdown passes and a 70% completion percentage, as well as two or fewer interceptions in a season. His 72.9% completion rate in 2024 and 37 touchdowns responsible for in 2023 are both single-season school records.
One hundred and 97 student-athletes across all levels of college football were nominated to the 2025 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. A voting panel of former Good Works Team members, head coaches and journalists will select 11 FBS players to the team this fall.
King and the Yellow Jackets open the 2025 season on Friday, Aug. 29 with a highly anticipated intersectional matchup at Colorado (8 p.m. ET – ESPN), before beginning their home slate against Gardner-Webb on Saturday, Sept. 6 (3:30 p.m. – ACC Network Extra).
Georgia Tech has posted consecutive winning seasons for the first time in a decade and returns five all-ACC honorees from last season’s squad, including all-America guard and first-team all-conference selection Keylan Rutledge. Other top performers returning for the Yellow Jackets in 2025 include all-ACC selections DT Jordan van den Berg, LB Kyle Efford, RB Jamal Haynes and WR Malik Rutherford, as well as two of the league’s top quarterbacks in King and redshirt freshman Aaron Philo.
2025 GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL SEASON TICKETS
2025 Georgia Tech football season, mini-plan and single-game tickets are on sale now.
Season tickets include the best seats for the Yellow Jackets’ six-game slate at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, which features Atlantic Coast Conference showdowns versus Clemson, Pitt, Syracuse and Virginia Tech. Georgia Tech season ticket members also have elevated seating priority for tickets purchased for the 2025 edition of “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate” versus archrival Georgia, set for Nov. 28 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Tech’s 2025 mini-plan includes tickets to the home opener versus Gardner-Webb, Hall of Fame Weekend against Virginia Tech and Senior Day versus Pitt. Mini-plans offer a better value than purchasing seats at single-game prices without the commitment of a full season ticket.
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Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.
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