Opportunity is somewhere.

If you’ve been a backup at Georgia Tech, at least one thing’s for sure:  there’s plenty of room this season for advancement.

… With graduation and the transfer portal having cleared out most of the Yellow Jackets’ starting secondary, the path to the playing field has widened considerably.

“Absolutely,” said Brooks, who has been working at safety and nickel this preseason. “The opportunity is there. Focusing on getting better day by day and, come season time, whatever happens, happens.”

Brooks’ belief that his moment may be arriving is one that many of his Tech teammates are sharing about their own fates. Including the secondary, the Jackets’ roster is absent 16 players who started at least six games last season, along with multiple key reserves. That’s a lot of snaps to replace, particularly at running back, on the offensive and defensive lines and in the secondary.

They haven’t built a big enough transfer portal to cover that.