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NCAA grants Rahsul Faison eligibility, will play for South Carolina football in 2025
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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.
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Faison is a 6-foot running back who transferred in January from Utah State . He was the No. 4 running back in the 2025 transfer portal according to 247Sports transfer rankings. Faison is coming off a season where he rushed for 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 . Faison now factors in on South Carolina's depth chart at running back for Week 1 of the college football season and beyond.
Ghe program has been waiting for more than eight months for the NCAA to decide. South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer has spoken publicly about Faison's eligibility.
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What were Rahsul Faison 's eligibility issues with NCAA?
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.
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Beamer's most experienced option at running back beside Faison is Oscar Adaway III, who served as the No. 2 running back to Rocket Sanders last season. He 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) with three touchdowns.
The Gamecocks added running back Isaiah Augustave from Colorado via the portal on June 11. Redshirt sophomore Jawarn Howell, redshirt freshman Matthew Fuller and graduate student Bradley Dunn are the other running backs on the roster, who got snaps last season for South Carolina.
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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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