It’s not every year – heeck, not every decade – football in South Carolina pulls off the quarterback recruiting win it made on Thursday night.
Class of 2022 five-star quarterback Gunner Stockton (Tiger, Ga./Rabun County), classified now. 24 nationwide among emerging high school juniors, South Carolina chose Georgia over its last two schools. The win for the Gamecocks makes waves in them modern recruitment history, dating from the year 2000 for 247Sports.
Stockton, the Class of 2022 no. 1 ranked dual-threat quarterback, becomes the highest rated quarterback to plead for the Gamecocks, his 0.9861 247Sports winning Stephen Garcia‘s 0.9759 (Class of 2007).
Stockton also becomes the program’s highest rated program not of the state of South Carolina. He contributes to recent perspectives from five star defensive lines Zacch Pickens en Jordan Burch on the list of Top 10 Gamecock joins.
1. WDE Jadeveon Clowney – 1.0000 (Class of 2011)
2. DT Jordan Burch – 0.9954 (Class of 2020)
3. RB Marcus Lattimore – 0.9953 (Class of 2010)
4. DT Zacch Pickens – 0.9946 (Class of 2019)
5. RB Demetris Summers – 0.9946 (Class 2003)
6. ILB Ricardo Hurley – 0.9924 (Class 2002)
7. DUAL QB Gunner Stockton – 0.9861 (Class of 2022)
8. CB Stephon Gilmore – 0.9812 (Class of 2009)
9. WDE Cliff Matthews – 0.9812 (Class of 2007)
10. CB Chris Culliver – 0.9810 (Class of 2007)
Salang’t Class of 2021 Three-Star Quarterback tawize Colten Gauthier sticks with the Gamecocks, Stockton would become the eighth quarterback to make it under South Carolina under head coach Sil Muschamp. Five of the eight names listed below hold four-star status as recruits. Stockton is the only five-star.
Muschamp-era quarterback joins
Class of 2016 – Brandon McIlwain (0.9273)
Class of 2016 – Jake Bentley (0.9068 – Redesigned from Class of 2017)
Class of 2017 – Jay Urich (0.8564)
Class of 2018 – Dakereon Joyner (0.9199)
Class of 2019 – Ryan Hilinski (0.9695)
Class of 2020 – Luke Doty (0.9633)
Class of 2021 – Colten Gauthier (0.8695)
Class of 2022 – Gunner Stockton (0.9861)
Stockton’s commitment to the Gamecocks is certainly no big surprise, as he has multiple ties to the football program. Mike Bobo is South Carolina’s first year offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Mike Bobo’s father, George Bobo, is Stockton’s personal quarterback coach. The high coach of Stockton is Jaybo Shaw, the older brother of former Gamecocks quarterback Connor Shaw, who is now back in Columbia as the Gamecocks Director of Player Development.
Late July, when she announced it would be between South Carolina and Georgia, Stockton said Connor Shaw is his role model.
“I saw (Connor) play almost every high school and college game,” Stockton said. “I dreamed of wearing 14 just like he and my dad. At the age of 6 or 7, Coach (George) Bobo showed me how to throw a football. He then spoke to my dad to make me into a QB instead of an LB. Now that I’ve built a relationship with Coach Mike, I see the same qualities in him that I hold about his father.They are competitive, faithful and Christ like.You can not ask for more than that. “
Stockton is now on a path that leads him to wear the same uniform that Shaw did, close to a decade later.
