South Carolina Football: Gamecock tight end target makes college decision

Well, that was fast. Earlier this week, South Carolina football target Logan Brooking (4-star tight end from Savannah Christian Prep School who is the son of former NFL All-Pro linebacker Keith Brooking) put the Gamecocks on a list of his top-8 schools.

The Gamecocks were joined by the Clemson Tigers, Florida Gators, Michigan Wolverines, Stanford Cardinal, Miami Hurricanes, Penn State Nittany Lions, and North Carolina Tar Heels.

Despite announcing his top-8 so recently, on Friday, less than three days later, the talented tight end went ahead and made his college commitment public.

The 4-star prospect made a commitment to the rival Clemson Tigers. In conversations with On3’s Hayes Fawcett and Chad Simmons, Brooking also claimed that he would be shutting his recruitment down completely and that he would take no more visits other than to Clemson.

Perhaps adding a little salt in the wound, Brooking said that South Carolina, Stanford, Penn State, and Miami were “close” and “up there” in his recruitment but that Clemson was the place for him.

For South Carolina football, Brooking is another tight end recruiting target who is off the board. The Gamecocks missed out on both Elyiss Williams and Ethan Barbour to Georgia earlier in the recruiting process.

Moving forward, if the Gamecocks intend to take a tight end in the class (and that seems likely), Marshall Pritchett appears to be the top target on the board at the position.

Pritchett is a South Carolina native who now plays his high school football in the state of Georgia. Like Brooking, Barbour, and Williams, he is also a 4-star prospect. Pritchett recently took a visit to Columbia.

In the class of 2024, Michael Smith (coincidentally, also from Savannah, Georgia like Brooking) has been committed to the Gamecocks longer than almost any other player in the cycle.