“He does everything with a great approach. He’s a very selfless guy,” said tight ends coach Nathan Brock.
In the transfer portal era, the bar has been set high for Georgia Tech tight ends. Brett Seither, Josh Beetham, J.T. Byrne and others enjoyed career rebirths after modest stats elsewhere. Tyler Davis and Jackson Hawes both parlayed one-year stops into NFL Draft selections.
After a pair of first-team All-America seasons in NCAA Division I FCS, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound Corbo hopes to be the next in line.
“It’s been great. I was excited for this opportunity to come here and finally showcase my talents on this level. It feels natural from the first time I stepped on the field. It’s been great just experiencing different atmospheres, different players, better players all around,” Corbo said. He entered the year ranked the No. 2 tight end on Pro Football Network’s Top-100 Prospect Watch List for the 2027 NFL Draft.
He may aspire to be the next Hawes, a fellow Ivy Leaguer whose lone season at Georgia Tech validated an NFL future. But growing up in North Caldwell, 20 miles west of New York City, Corbo had other player comps in mind.
“I’ve had a pretty crazy journey. From flag football all the way to eighth grade, I was a running back. I was thinking I was going to be the next Derrick Henry for a while there. Then I switched to wide receiver in high school. I played that for four years, thinking I was going to become DK Metcalf,” he said, referring to the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pros, respectively.
(Fun fact: Corbo grew up three streets down from the house where they filmed the seminal HBO series The Sopranos. His uncle, who runs a landscaping company, still has a five-figure check from the series hanging in his office. The filming interrupted his ability to do jobs in the neighborhood, and they paid him handsomely for the lost income.)
Corbo’s high school ran a wing-T offense, which limited his routes to a smattering of fades, hitches and slants. When college coaches sized him up, though, they almost universally projected him as a tight end – physical enough to handle contact in the box, but soft-handed enough to catch passes on the perimeter.
“I never really thought about it. There really wasn’t a tight end in the offense we ran in high school. I got to Dartmouth and they made me a tight end, and I’ve loved it and never looked back,” he recalled.
After earning Dartmouth’s offensive scout team award as a freshman, Corbo contributed nine catches and two touchdowns on the Big Green’s Ivy League championship team in 2023. In another sliding doors moment, that season included a September matchup with Yale, where Jackson Hawes caught two passes for the Bulldogs.
Corbo exploded as a junior and senior, catching 77 passes and earning All-America laurels from the Associated Press, the American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp and Stats Perform. Not surprisingly, those numbers made him a sought-after prospect when he entered his name in the transfer portal in December of 2025. Corbo said he had a “pretty strong feeling” on his official visit that the Jackets would be his landing spot.
He didn’t yet know that Adamson, the son of the man he met at Dartmouth, was on the Jackets’ roster and could potentially be his quarterback. But another piece of serendipity greeted him on his official visit.
“I came out of a meeting with Coach Brock. We had a couple minutes. My phone was really blowing up. I opened it and the first notification I saw was ESPN – I think it was from (reporter) Pete Thamel – it was like, ‘Georgia Tech is hiring George Godsey as offensive coordinator.’ I was like, ‘Look at this timing, Coach,’” Corbo said.
“Knowing his background, being in the NFL for 15 years and being the Ravens’ tight ends coach, I feel like it was a great match to learn from great tight ends coaches.”
