Few players left a Georgia high school with more football accolades than Andre Hastings. In 1989, he was named the Gatorade all-classification Player of the Year, USA Today National Offensive Player of the Year, a Parade All-American and AJC Class 4A Offensive Player of the Year. During his sophomore year, Hastings led Morrow to a 14-1 finish and Class 4A championship with the Mustangs’ 21-0 victory over Effingham County. Morrow went 9-3 Hastings’ junior season and then as a senior, he caught 59 passes for 1,038 yards and 15 touchdowns during a 10-2 campaign. He ended his high school career with 184 receptions for 3,132 yards and 41 touchdowns. After spending his college career at the University of Georgia, where he racked up 1,876 yards and 13 touchdowns on 124 receptions, he was picked in the third round of the 1993 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He caught 10 passes for 98 yards and returned two punts for 18 yards in Super Bowl XXX against the Dallas Cowboys. Hastings spent eight years in the NFL with the Steelers, Saints and Buccaneers and caught 266 passes for 3,307 yards and 18 touchdown receptions. In 2007, he was ranked the No. 12 Georgia high school football player of all time by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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