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Pressley Harvin III (Alcolu, S.C./Alcolu) was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 27 th pick in the seventh round (No. 254 overall) of the 2021 National Football League on Saturday in Cleveland. Harvin’s selection gives Georgia Tech two NFL Draft picks in the same year for the first time since 2016. Wide receiver Harvin won the 2020 Ray Guy Award as college football’s top punter after leading the nation and setting Georgia Tech and Atlantic Coast Conference records with a 48.0-yard punting average. In addition to winning the Ray Guy Award, Harvin earned unanimous All-America rec...

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech punter Pressley Harvin III (Alcolu, S.C./Alcolu) was officially recognized by the National Football League on Tuesday as a 2021 NFL Scouting Combine invitee. The NFL Combine – the league’s traditional showcase where top prospects are assessed by NFL general managers, coaches and scouts – was not held in 2021 due to Covid-19 protocols. However, the NFL released the list of players that would have been invited to the event had it been held in order to recognize them for ranking among the top prospects for the upcoming NFL Draft. Harvin won the 2020 Ray Guy Awar...

Technical Tidbits 1/8: Harvin Wins 2020 Ray Guy Award Share this story Related This was the best news Yellow Jackets could have hoped for from last night’s Home Depot College Football Awards Show. Pressley Harvin III was named the winner of the 2020 Ray Guy Award. With this win, Harvin can be officially recognized as what Tech fans have always known he was, college football’s top punter. Over and over last season Harvin made punts that would set up Tech’s defense in perfect shape, often pinning their opponent deep in their own territory. As the article mentions, Harvin set Georgia T...

For most of its existence, Alcolu’s chief export was lumber. The small hamlet in west-central South Carolina began as a mill town in the late 19th century for employees of D.W. Alderman, a local timber magnate. Ribbons of railroad tracks still crisscross through the pines there, clacking with commerce from all corners of the state. The town takes its quirky name – it’s pronounced AL-co-lu – from a portmanteau of Alderman (“Al”); his business partner and brother-in-law, Colwell (“Co”); and his oldest daughter, Lula (“Lu”). With a population of 429 as of the 2010 census, Alc...