Gamecocks QB Rattler decides to leave for NFL
Nov 29, 2023, 04:44 PM ET
COLUMBIA, S.C.– Quarterback Spencer Rattler, maybe the brightest spot for South Carolina in a losing season, is quiting his last year in college for the NFL.Rattler, a fifth-year senior who invested his first three seasons at Oklahoma, announced his intents Wednesday on social networks.
“This has actually been a dream and objective of mine given that I was a little kid and can not wait for the chance to turn my dream into truth,” he said in his post.Rattler called his
two years with the Gamecocks the very best of his football life. He led South Carolina to successive wins over top-10, potentially playoff-bound groups in Tennessee and Clemson in 2022, when the Gamecocks went 8-5.
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Rattler and the group had greater hopes this season, however a four-game SEC losing streak in September and October left them at 5-7. South Carolina was up to measure up to Clemson 16-7 on Saturday night, when Rattler was pushed throughout the game and held to a season-low 112 passing yards.
“This place implied everything to me,” Rattler stated later. “Coming here, in 2 years and just delighting in every minute: the adversity, the success. I wished to be a part of change in this program. And I seem like I put 110% effort into it every day.”
He teased fans that he might make use of his sixth season of eligibility before stating that he was turning pro.Rattler ended up
his career with 10,807 lawns passing, 77 goals and 32 interceptions.His draft status is all over the place in a year considered deep with gifted quarterbacks. Rattler appeared in some first-round mock drafts previously this fall. He also has actually been predicted as a late second-day or early third-day selection.He started all 25 games at South Carolina and 42 of 48 contests in his career, which began with the Sooners.Rattler’s choice to leave after losing the beginning job at Oklahoma reunited him with Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer, who was an assistant on Lincoln
Riley’s staff with the Sooners.Beamer has actually pointed out Rattler’s leadership and temperament as much as his skill set in being important for South Carolina.When the Gamecocks were 2-6 after a loss at Texas A&M in late October, Beamer said it was Rattler
who came up to him on the aircraft ride home to see how the coach was holding up and said sorry that the team could not take out the triumph.”‘Brother, I need to be asking forgiveness to you,'” Beamer informed him.”It’s not phony, that’s how he is and it’s the method he’s always has been,” the coach continued, “and could not be prouder of him.”