Christ Church WR Jackson Repp (5-8 160) earned a scholarship offer from South Carolina coach Shane Beamer after turning in some blazing speeds in camp last summer. A torn ACL early in the season slowed the recruiting process, but Repp said throughout his rehab, Beamer and receivers coach Mike Furrey stood behind the offer.
Monday, Repp finalized the deal by announcing a commitment to the Gamecocks, but he will be joining the program as a preferred walk-on with the plan to go on scholarship in January.
“I’ll be reporting this summer and on the team for the fall,” Repp said. “With my situation, I had lots of talks with the coaching staff and decided this was the best option for everyone. With my ACL, and the rehab process, I want to get onto campus as soon as possible. Working with the entire staff and my new teammates is #1 priority. I’ve talked with other schools and kept relationships, but throughout the entire process the USC staff has been so supportive of me. Since receiving the offer this summer, I’ve always felt like the University of South Carolina was home.”
As a junior, Repp caught 63 passes for 1510 yards and 27 touchdowns. He accumulated 2393 all-purpose yards and 32 total touchdowns. He said earlier in the recruiting process that Beamer and Furry view him as a contributor in a couple of different ways.
“I think it’s not just me as a receiver, it’s me and what I can do in the special teams game and how I can be used other ways as well,” Repp said. “As a receiver, I talked to Coach Furrey and Beamer and they both said I’ve got elite route running, elite ball skills, elite hands, elite speed obviously. The one quality I don’t have that’s elite is the height. There’s ways to work around that. I can’t change that. I’m not worried about that. There’s ways they can use me where I don’t need to be a 6-5 outside receiver. I can be in the slot and all that, return kicks and punts, anyway that I can be used in that offense. I think there’s a lot of ways I can be productive.”
But all coaches know you can’t coach speed, and Repp knew he had done something special in front of the USC staff that day in camp.
“I knew it was fast when I ran it. I felt like I was moving. I came back to Coach Furrey and was looking at the stopwatch and I was like holy crap, that’s my fastest one ever,” Repp said. “I wouldn’t say I was expecting anything after, but that definitely raised some eyebrows. I knew that was going to get me even more on the map. I had seven on seven earlier at South Carolina and I performed there and got some more eyes on me.”
Repp gives South Carolina seven receivers in the 2025 class with five of them from the state.