{"id":409911,"date":"2026-01-16T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409911\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:46:09","slug":"south-carolina-secures-a-transfer-portal-commitment-from-edge-caleb-herring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409911\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina secures a transfer portal commitment from edge Caleb Herring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tennessee edge rusher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/caleb-herring-17027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Herring<\/a> is staying in the SEC, committing to South Carolina on Thursday during his visit to Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The Murfreesboro, Tenn. native also strongly considered opportunities with Mississippi State, Texas and Miami.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really the scheme,\u201d Herring told On3. \u201cI feel like with the scheme, I feel like we can play fast with this defense. At Tennessee of course we played vertical, and read and reacted, but at South Carolina they let you play ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The On3 Transfer Portal ratings tabs Herring the No. 23 edge and No. 246 prospect overall. He spent a lot of time with his future head coach Shane Beamer and his future teammate Dylan Stewart while on his trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach Beamer you can tell he\u2019s a real passionate coach,\u201d Herring said. \u201cYou can tell he loves what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDylan Stewart is with me now and you can tell the love is there with Coach Beamer and the guys love him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of three seasons in Knoxville, Herring accumulated 25 total tackles, five sacks, a forced fumble and two passes defended.<\/p>\n<p>For more on what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/south-carolina-gamecocks\/football\/2026\/transfers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina has done in the transfer portal click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee edge rusher Caleb Herring is staying in the SEC, committing to South Carolina on Thursday during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[196801,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-409911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-caleb-herring-23-riverdale","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}