Star power: South Carolina football vs. Kentucky
South Carolina football opens conference play on Saturday afternoon, hitting the road to play Kentucky.
GamecockCentral.com has a look back at how Gamecocks and Wildcats players stacked up as prospects during the recruiting process.
All rankings listed below come from the On3 Industry Ranking a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
Note: Mazeo Bennett and Dylan Stewart are listed as OR starters at their respective positions, but we slotted them as the sole starter for the purposes of this piece due to their game one snap counts.
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QUARTERBACK
South Carolina
LaNorris Sellers (Four-star, 89.75)
Kentucky
Brock Vandagriff (Five-star, 97.21)
RUNNING BACK
South Carolina
Rocket Sanders (Four-star, 90.25)
Kentucky
Demie Sumo-Karngbaye (Three-star, 82.40)
WIDE RECEIVER
South Carolina
Jared Brown (Three-star, 82.82)
Vandrevius Jacobs (Four-star, 89.92)
Mazeo Bennett (Four-star, 90.23)
Kentucky
Dane Key (Four-star, 90.51)
Ja’Mori Maclin (Three-star, 87.73)
Barion Brown (Four-star, 94.70)
TIGHT END
South Carolina Gamecocks
Josh Simon (Three-star, 78.77)
Brady Hunt (Three-star, 78.41)
Kentucky
Jordan Dingle (Three-star, 86.50)
Josh Kattus (Three-star, 84.25)
OFFENSIVE LINE
South Carolina
Josiah Thompson (Four-star, 96.76)
Kamaar Bell (Three-star 88.33)
Vershon Lee (Three-star, 85.93)
Torricelli Simpkins III (Unranked)
Cason Henry (Three-star, 85.03)
Kentucky
Jager Burton (Four-star, 93.75)
Jalen Farmer (Three-star, 87.28)
Marques Cox (Three-star, 82.50)
Eli Cox (Three-star, 82.50)
Gerald Mincey (Three-star, 86.27)
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DEFENSIVE LINE
South Carolina
Kyle Kennard (Three-star, 85.60)
Tonka Hemingway (Four-star, 89.74)
Boogie Huntley (Four-star, 91.67)
Dylan Stewart (Five-Star Plus, 98.32)
Kentucky
Deone Walker (Four-star, 90.52)
Tre’vonn Rybka (Three-star, 88.40)
Keeshawn Silver (Five-star, 97.22)
LINEBACKER
South Carolina
Bam Martin-Scott OR Demetrius Knight (Three-star, 82.83)
Debo Williams (Unranked)
Kentucky
Alex Afari (Four-star, 90.81)
Trevin Wallace (Four-star, 94.25)
D’Eryck Jackson Three-star, 83.80)
Jamon Dumas-Johnson (Four-star, 91.17)
DEFENSIVE BACK
South Carolina
O’Donnell Fortune (Three-star, 85.67)
Jalon Kilgore (Four-star, 90.77)
Judge Collier (Three-star, 84.83)
DeQuandre Smith (Three-star, 84.41)
Nick Emmanwori (Four-star, 89.93)
Kentucky
Zion Childress (Three-star, 81.90)
Jordan Lovett (Three-star, 84.47)
Maxwell Hairston (Three-star, 84.70)
JQ Hardaway (Four-star, 90.46)
