Carvers Bay High School near Georgetown has produced some outstanding football players over the years. Next in line with the Bears is OT Zyon Guiles (6-5 290). The major offers are pouring in coming off what was an excellent summer camp season.
“I’ve been putting in the work going to camps getting bigger, getting stronger,” Guiles said. “Last season I was around 250 pounds and I’m around 290 right now. I’m still moving the same, moving better if that. I’ve just been trying to put in the work and get my recruitment to blow up.”
Blowing up indeed. Guiles offers include Clemson, USC, Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn, Florida State, NC State, North Carolina, Duke, Miami and Wake Forest. Guiles is still early in the process and taking everything in, but the two in-state schools have the advantage at this point.
“It’s really about 50-50 right now,” Guiles said. “I just have to sit down with my parents and go deep in conversation with them, take my official visits, see how everything is and how the colleges treat me and just really take recruiting day by day.”
With Clemson, Guiles has long been attracted to the Tigers, and now he has the opportunity to join the program.
“Clemson kind of watch me grow up actually,” Guiles said. “The staff there has seen pictures of me being there since I was four or five, even before I could even play football officially. I was just always in love with watching the Tigers play and Dabo Swinney and everything. They really watched me progress. I went to camp and just balled out and got that offer.”
While he’s heard some from head coach Dabo Swinney, Guiles said the majority of his contact with Clemson is with offensive line coach Matt Luke.
“He likes that I’m dedicated and that I’ve had a love for their school since I was little,” Guiles said. “He wants me to be one of the leaders for the offensive line in the ’26 class. Me and him talk almost every day about that.”
With South Carolina, offensive line coach Lonnie Teasley also had him in camp and his heading up the recruiting effort.
“Me and Teasley chalk it up almost every day. Me and Sam Serbay talk about O-line things,” he said. “They send me some of my film back almost weekly about some things I can fix about my game. I appreciate them for that. It’s always good to have the opportunity to stay close to home.”
Guiles added that another selling point for the Gamecocks is the culture inside the program, which he found appealing.
“I like how they all move as one,” Guiles said. “There’s not different groups, they are all one big family over there. They move in unison. They don’t exclude anybody. They include their recruits in some of the things they do, and I just like that. Me and Coach Beamer talk almost weekly. He calls me sometimes after practice when I get home and asks me how everything is going. Just building out relationship.”
Guiles has not set any dates for game visits this season, but he said he plans to see games at Clemson, USC, Auburn, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida State and NC State.
Both good schools,but I hope you pick USC you won’t go wrong either way
Hopefully we can land Zyon but either way I hope he stays instate.