2025 Board Watch: Defensive tackle
The South Carolina Gamecocks have built plenty of depth on the interior defensive line heading into the 2024 football campaign.
The position group carries plenty of experience, a group that’s loaded with upperclassmen, seniors, and graduates. What that means beyond this season, however, is that Shane Beamer’s program will need to make the 2025 recruiting cycle an important one to restock the talent in this room.
We give GamecockCentral.com subscribers a closer look at where things stand with the board at defensive tackle.
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The Gamecocks will draw from all three phases of the recruiting pool to build out this year’s class on the interior of the d-line.
Let’s start with the transfer portal, which is sure to factor into the plans once it reopens after the 2024 season. Of course, we can’t bring any real intel yet, since that’s still months away.
Given how many players USC could lose here – check out GamecockCentral.com’s scholarship breakdown for more detail – there’s a need for not only some volume, but valuable experience.
The difficult part of this is that transfer defensive tackles typically command a premium on the NIL market. So it won’t be easy to land difference makers.
South Carolina is also expected to look in the junior college ranks this cycle, notably at former Gamecocks pledge Zavion Hardy.
The Georgia product, now at East Mississippi Community College, has other SEC offers at this point. Arkansas, Auburn, and Georgia are involved. USC has an official visit booked for late June and wants to add him to this year’s class.
Two high school tackles have official visits booked this summer, too. One is Friendship Collegiate (D.C.) product Bryce Jenkins, a former high school teammate of South Carolina freshman Dylan Stewart.
Another is Georgia four-star Kevin Wynn, who will be in Columbia the weekend of June 7. Not surprisingly, UGA is a major factor here. He’s also slated to see Texas and FSU this summer.
The Gamecocks already hold a verbal commitment from Virginia’s Caleb Williams, who seems to have strong potential. USC also extended an offer recently to Florida product EJ Thomas, who’s expressed interest in a visit.
Others could emerge this summer, too.
While five-star Elijah Griffin – in the early stages of the process – once named South Carolina his leader, he seems like a longer shot now. He did recently tell On3’s Chad Simmons that he could take a trip to Columbia this summer.
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