Four-star WR Gidron devotes to South Carolina

Eli Lederman, ESPN Personnel WriterOct 4, 2024, 05:43 PM ET

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Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World.Four-star wide receiver Jordon Gidron, ESPN’s No. 41 general possibility in the 2026 class, dedicated to South Carolina Friday afternoon in an announcement on social media.Gidron, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound pass catcher from Columbia, South Carolina, plans to reclassify into the 2025 cycle. Once he reclassifies, Gidron would end up being the highest-rated recruit in Shane Beamer’s 2025 class.The news comes one day before the Gamecocks’Week 6 conference with No. 12 Ole Miss at

Williams-Brice Arena (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN). Gidron started the fall as ESPN’s No. 7 pass receiver in the 2026 class. Prior to his junior year at South Carolina’s Ridge View High School, Gidron participated in camps at Auburn, Alabama and Georgia and took informal visits to North Carolina and N.C. State before going back to Auburn for the Tigers’ junior day in late July.Gidron’s dedication comes 3 weeks after he went to South Carolina for the Gamecocks’36-33 loss to LSU on Sept. 14. Gidron caught 45 passes

for 731 lawns and 10 goals during his sophomore season last fall.Gidron will become the newest member of a South Carolina 2025 class that consists of only one other ESPN possibility in four-star pass receiver Lex Cyrus(No. 285 in the ESPN 300).

After Cyrus, four-star security pledges Damarcus Leach (No. 24 safety) and Kendal Daniels Jr. (No. 28) and pass receiver commit Brian Rowe(No. 45) rank amongst the highest-rated prospects in the Gamecocks

’19-player class.South Carolina’s inbound class sat at No. 35 in ESPN’s latest rankings for the 2025 cycle prior to Gidron’s dedication.