E.J. Jenkins announces transfer from South Carolina
Wide receiver E.J. Jenkins, who spent one season with South Carolina football, announced his transfer from the program on Twitter Monday morning.
Jenkins will hit the transfer portal again after originally joining the Gamecocks out of the portal last spring from FCS St. Francis.
“First I’d like to thank God for presenting me the opportunity to experience being a Gamecock the past year,” Jenkins said in the Tweet. “I am truly blessed to meet new people that I can call family in my time at South Carolina. Thank you, Coach Beamer, Coach Stepp and the rest of the staff for allowing me to be a part of the 2021 season. Lastly, thank you Gamecock Nation for giving me the experience I would have dreamed of as a kid. There will always be love here. That being said, I will be entering the transfer portal. Thank you South Carolina. 13 out.”
Jenkins, who has one year of eligibility left, played in 12 games, making one start, and caught eight passes for 117 yards and a touchdown this past season.
The 6-foot-7, 240-pounder from Fredericksburg, Va. joined the program as sort of a hybrid tight end/wide receiver but ultimately played more wide receiver for the Gamecocks last season, rotating between the first- and second-string offense.
Jenkins joined the South Carolina football program along with his long-time best friend, quarterback Jason Brown, who himself entered the transfer portal in December after Spencer Rattler committed to the Gamecocks.
Jenkins and Brown played together in high school and at St. Francis and then at South Carolina this past season. Brown transferred to Virginia Tech where he went through spring football practice this semester.
Jenkins missed the Garnet and Black spring game and the scrimmages before it with an injury and was facing increased competition in a wide receiver room that saw Josh Vann return, Xavier Legette and Ahmarean Brown emerge, and FCS All-American Antwane Wells Jr. be added to the mix.
The South Carolina football roster will also add Arkansas State wide receiver transfer and former freshman All-American Corey Rucker this summer.
Jenkins, a second-team All-NEC performer, caught 44 passes for 831 yards for the Red Flash prior to his arrival in Columbia.
A three-star prospect out of Chancellor High School, Jenkins was ranked by the On3 Consensus as the No. 254 wide receiver in the 2017 class.
