South Carolina grabs two top transfers from portal

South Carolina has made the early SEC splash in the transfer portal by getting commitments from former Oklahoma QB Spencer Rattler, and his teammate Austin Stogner.

This will significantly upgrade South Carolina’s offensive room, where they were a putrid 109th out of 130 in points-per-game.

Rattler and Stogner leave as part of a wave of players leaving Norman after head coach Lincoln Riley departed for USC (the other one!) two weeks ago.

And while it is hardly a surprise bearing in mind that South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer worked on Oklahoma’s staff from 2018 to 2020 as an assistant head coach as well tight ends coach.

Gamecocks fans will be hoping to see the QB who was a preseason Heisman favorite instead of the QB who was benched midway through the season after an awful first half performance against Texas in favor of a freshman, and never got back to the fold.

The Stogner commitment might be South Carolina’s biggest coup. Despite having a down year for the Sooners in 2021, where he had three touchdowns on 9 receptions and 166 yards, you can explain that way because of Oklahoma’s wide receivers that included three top WRs in Marvin Mims, Jadon Haselwood (who’s actually just hit the transfer portal) and Mike Woods. And although the numbers were quite the drop from the 422 yards and 3 TDs on 26 receptions he had in 2021.