{"id":414213,"date":"2026-01-18T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414213\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:01:07","slug":"south-carolina-adds-6-foot-7-ol-from-cusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414213\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina adds 6-foot-7 OL from CUSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico State transfer offensive tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/armando-nieves-249669\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armando Nieves<\/a> has been added to South Carolina football\u2019s transfer portal class, GamecockCentral\/On3 has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>247Sports first reported the news.<\/p>\n<p>GamecockCentral first mentioned Nieves as a target to watch for the Gamecocks on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-7, 315-pounder played over 600 snaps in 10 starts for the Aggies during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>After playing high school football at Paradise Valley in Phoenix, Arizona, Nieves walked on at Hutchinson Community College. He spent a season with the Blue Dragons, playing in four games and capturing a NCJAA national championship with the program before moving on to New Mexico State.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina Transfer Portal Resources:<\/p>\n<p>The offensive line has been a focus in the transfer portal this offseason for the Gamecocks.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Nieves, the Gamecocks have added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/dayne-arnett-32661\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dayne Arnett <\/a>(Ferris State), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/hank-purvis-173994\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hank Purvis <\/a>(Purdue), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/carter-miller-18921\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Miller<\/a> (UCF), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/seth-smith-283733\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Smith<\/a> (Northern Arizona), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/emmanuel-poku-244918\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emmanuel Poku<\/a> (East Carolina), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/jacarrius-peak-147253\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacarrius Peak<\/a> (NC State) to the class along the front five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Mexico State transfer offensive tackle Armando Nieves has been added to South Carolina football\u2019s transfer portal class,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[198576,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-414213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-armando-nieves","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\/414213","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=414213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}