The Georgia Tech alum also made stops at Alabama, UConn, and Florida International.
The personnel department for the Texas Longhorns received another boost on Friday with the news from Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports/247Sports that former Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets General Manager Errin Joe.
Texas is hiring Errin Joe as its new director of scouting, sources tell @CBSSports/@247Sports.
Joe was most recently the general manager at Georgia Tech. Joe, a former Georgia Tech starting offensive lineman, previously worked at Alabama.https://t.co/qOetA1iLiU pic.twitter.com/eGcX63v8Gc
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) February 14, 2025
As a member of the 2011 recruiting class out of Lakeland (Fla.) Lake Gibson, Joe signed with Georgia Tech as a consensus three-star prospect over offers from Duke, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Missouri, Stanford, and West Virginia, eventually starting 16 games over his final two seasons with the Yellow Jackets.
After Joe’s playing career ended, he spent a year as an English teacher at Lake Gibson before re-entering the college football world as an assistant quality control coach at Florida International under Butch Davis. Joe returned to Georgia Tech as a graduate assistant, spending three years working with the offensive line, then becoming the program’s Assistant Director of Player Personnel.
A stop in Storrs to serve as the Director of Recruiting at UConn only lasted three months when Alabama hired Joe to become the Assistant Director of Player Personnel, where On3 called him one of the rising stars among personnel and recruiting staffers after Alabama signed the nation’s top recruiting class.
Ten months later, Joe was back in Atlanta at his alma mater as the General Manager. In the 2025 recruiting cycle, the Yellow Jackets signed the consensus No. 22 recruiting history, considered the best Georgia Tech class in the modern recruiting era, led by the signing of the school’s second five-star prospect, Georgia offensive tackle Josh Petty, though the 247Sports Composite rankings have Georgia cornerback Tae Harris as the top prospect in the class.
After losing fellow Georgia Tech alum Tashard Choice to the Detroit Lions on Thursday, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is surely hoping that bringing Joe from Atlanta can help the Longhorns remain a presence in Georgia high school football recruiting, a critical part of the SEC footprint from which Texas landed consensus five-star defensive lineman Justus Terry