LaNorris Sellers will be back for a fourth season at South Carolina.
The preseason first-team all-SEC quarterback is set to come back in 2026,according tomultiple reports.Sellers was seen as a potential top-10 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft before the season, but South Carolina underachieved in 2025.
The Gamecocks went 4-8 as the offensive line struggled against an extremely tough schedule. Sellers was 178-of-293 passing for 2,437 yards and just 13 TDs with eight interceptions across 12 games. Thanks to sacks, he also rushed for just 270 yards and five touchdowns.
A year ago, Sellers was the breakout star of the SEC. In 2024, he was 196-of-299 passing for 2,534 yards and 18 TDs with seven interceptions. Thirteen of those touchdowns came over South Carolina's last six games of the season.
He also rushed for 674 yards and seven scores. He rushed 16 times for 166 yards in the Gamecocks' upset of Clemson to end the season. That was South Carolina's sixth win in a row before the Gamecocks lost to Illinois in the Citrus Bowl.
The 2024 USC offense was coordinated by Dowell Loggains, and the team's success helped lead to Loggains getting the head coaching job at Appalachian State. Coach Shane Beamer promoted Mike Shula to replace Loggains, and Shula didn't even last the entire season.
Shula was fired nine games into the season as South Carolina was 3-6. Earlier this week, the school announced that longtime college football assistant Kendal Briles would be the team's offensive coordinator and former Penn State running backs coach Stan Drayton would be the assistant head coach for offense and also the team's running backs coach.
Briles, the son of former Baylor coach Art Briles, has coached at five different schools since his dad was fired in 2016. He's been the offensive coordinator at Florida Atlantic, Houston, Florida State and Arkansas before spending the last three seasons at TCU.
