Football | 5/16/2016 10:13:00 AM

STATESBORO - Former Georgia Tech wide receiver Micheal Summers, Jr. has been admitted to Georgia Southern University for graduate school and has joined the Eagle football team for his redshirt senior season this fall, as announced Monday by head coach Tyson Summers. Micheal Summers, Jr., who graduated from Georgia Tech on May 7 with a degree in business administration, will be eligible to play at GS this fall based on the NCAA graduate transfer rule.

Summers, Jr., who hails from Statesboro and graduated from Statesboro High, played in and started seven games at Georgia Tech last season, where he was the second-leading receiver for the Yellow Jackets. He caught 12 passes for 178 yards and two scores last season before leaving the team in November. For his career, Summers tallied 29 receptions for 434 yards and those two scores in the option-oriented GT attack.

"It means the world to me to be able to come back to my hometown and play for the school that I grew up watching," Summers, Jr. said. "Being a positive role model for the youth in Statesboro means the most to me because when I graduated from Statesboro High and went up to Atlanta and Georgia Tech, not a day went by that I didn't think about my family back home. I'm just so excited  to enroll at Georgia Southern, start the Master's program and be an Eagle. 

"I'm a lot more mature than I was coming out of high school, so I know what to expect when it comes to being focused and attentive in terms of the option offense," Summers, Jr. continued. "My goal is to be consistent on the field and to build relationships with Favian Upshaw and Kevin Ellison, as well as the receivers like BJ Johnson and Montay Crockett. I just want to get there and get to know everyone and bring what I have to offer to Georgia Southern."

Summers, Jr. will enroll in the higher education Master's program at Georgia Southern.