{"id":545592,"date":"2026-03-18T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:59:08","slug":"south-carolina-the-latest-school-to-offer-brayden-bailey-son-of-nfl-legend-champ-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545592\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina the latest school to offer Brayden Bailey, son of NFL legend Champ Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Add Champ Bailey<\/a> to the list of former NFL greats with sons who double as talented high school football prospects.<\/p>\n

The first-ballot Hall of Famer who played for the Washington Commanders and later Denver Broncos apparently has some good genes running in the family. Bailey\u2019s son, Brayden Bailey<\/a>, is a fast-rising prospect in the 2028 class out of Holy Innocents Episcopal School<\/a> in the Atlanta area.<\/p>\n

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Like his dad, Brayden is a two-way player who stars at receiver and cornerback. And colleges are beginning to take notice. Earlier this spring, Florida Atlantic gave Bailey his first Division I offer. Georgia Tech followed suit. And on Wednesday, Bailey got his first SEC offer from South Carolina while visiting for the team\u2019s spring practice.<\/p>\n

Defensive backs coach Torrian Gray<\/a> and assistant Dre Bly<\/a> \u2014 himself a longtime NFL player and teammate of Champ\u2019s with the Denver Broncos \u2014 were the ones to deliver it to him.<\/p>\n

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The younger Bailey finished up his sophomore year this past fall, seeing significant varsity action for the second year in a row. He did a little bit of everything for the Golden Bears, playing receiver and cornerback, as well as returning kicks.<\/p>\n

On the offensive side, he hauled 19 passes for 387 yards \u2014 averaging more than 20 yards per reception \u2014 as well as eight touchdowns. Conversely, he was a lockdown defender in the secondary with 40 tackles and two interceptions, both of which went for touchdowns. He also added a kick return for a score and averaged better than 23.5 yards per return for the season.<\/p>\n

Bailey is a dynamo on the track as well, running a 10.58 100 meters earlier this week and a 22.39 200. Later this month, the 5-foot-9 speedster is set to see FAU, Georgia and Texas A&M as his recruitment begins to heat up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add Champ Bailey to the list of former NFL greats with sons who double as talented high school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[505,212710,212708,49,48,182493,1743,212711,89986,212709,514,82,1758],"class_list":["post-545592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-atlanta","tag-brayden","tag-brayden-bailey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-champ-bailey","tag-denver-broncos","tag-florida-atlantic","tag-georgia-tech","tag-holy-innocents-episcopal-school","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}