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COLUMBIA — The NCAA has granted South Carolina football transfer running back Rahsul Faison another year of eligibility.
Faison’s lawyer Darren Heitner announced the news on Aug. 25 via X, writing: “CONFIRMED. RAHSUL FAISON IS ELIGIBLE.” A spokesperson for the team also confirmed to The Greenville News that he’s been cleared.
Faison is a 6-foot running back who transferred in this January from Utah State. He was the No. 4 running back in the 2025 transfer portal according to 247Sports transfer rankings. He’s coming off a season in 2024 where he rushed 1,109 yards on 198 carries and scored eight touchdowns, averaging 5.8 yards per carry.
South Carolina opens the season on Aug. 31 (3 p.m., ESPN) against Virginia Tech, and can now officially have Faison on the depth charter for Week 1.
This is a decision the program has been waiting for nine months, and one that coach Shane Beamer has spoken publicly about.
The Gamecocks held their first preseason practice on Aug. 1 and Faison was not on the field because he was not permitted to practice at the time. But later in the day, the NCAA cleared Faison to practice and has been since.
Rahsul Faison cleared to play for South Carolina football in 2025
The eligibility concerns were due to his stops at other schools before Utah State. Faison’s college career began at Marshall in the fall of 2019 but he didn’t play football. In 2020, he took online classes at Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also didn’t play football.
He then went to Snow Community College but didn’t appear in any games in the 2021 season. In 2022 he rushed for 355 yards on 88 carries and six touchdowns.
Before coming to South Carolina, he spent the 2023 and 2024 season with the Aggies.
Beamer’s most experienced option is mainly Oscar Adaway III who served as a No. 2 to star Rocket Sanders last season, and was the main running back in the Citrus Bowl on Dec. 31 when Sanders opted out of playing. In his first season under Beamer last year, Adaway had 295 rushing yards on 77 carries (3.8 ypc) and had three touchdowns.
On June 11, the Gamecocks added running back Isaiah Augustave from Colorado via the portal.
Redshirt sophomore Jawarn Howell, redshirt freshman Matthew Fuller and grad student Bradley Dunn are the only current running backs on the roster who got snaps last season for South Carolina.
Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email her at lkesin@gannett.com and follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, @Lulukesin
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