South Carolina EDGE Terrell Dawkins enters NCAA transfer portal

South Carolina EDGE Terrell Dawkins has entered the NCAA transfer portal, On3 has learned. He spent two years with the Gamecocks after starting his career at NC State.

Dawkins appeared in eight games over his two seasons at South Carolina, totaling just two tackles during that time. At NC State, his best year came as a freshman in 2020 when he had 36 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss and 5.0 sacks.

Terrell Dawkins played high school football at Cox Mill (N.C.), where he was a three-star prospect. He was the No. 665 overall recruit in the 2020 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

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South Carolina lost 21 players to the portal this offseason, but the Gamecocks remained active to fill those spots. Shane Beamer and the coaching staff landed 19 players from the portal and currently hold the No. 5-ranked class in the On3 Team Transfer Portal Index. The group of newcomers is headlined by former Arkansas running back Raheim “Rocket” Sanders – the No. 47 overall player in the On3 Industry Transfer Portal Rankings.

To Beamer, there were a few qualities he was looking for in transfers. The biggest, though, was how they fit what he’s building.

“There’s a lot of talented guys that were in the portal that we looked at and evaluated,” Beamer told On3’s J.D. PicKell earlier this month on The Hard Count. “But they’ve got to be a fit for what we’re about and they got to be about the right stuff to fit what we’re doing here as a program, culture-wise. There were some guys that we brought in on visits that, at the end, just I didn’t feel like they were a fit for what we wanted and needed. But we’ve really increased the leadership and culture in that locker room. And again, I don’t think it was bad last year.

“But the guys that we brought in, we haven’t had a snap a of a spring practice, but already they’ve made us better – whether it be the physical attributes like their athleticism or whether it be just their leadership and the kind of people they are.”