Apparently, Oceanside Collegiate wide receiver Jaiden Kelly-Murray won’t be a Gamecock after all. The former Summerville standout de-committed from USC on Monday, according to Hayes Fawcett of Rivals.
VTScoop’s Kolby Crawford put in a prediction last week that Kelly-Murray will flip to Virginia Tech. He visited Blacksburg last weekend.
Murray, who had originally planned to wait until the summer, chose the Gamecocks in March over schools like Virginia Tech, Florida, Florida State, North Carolina, Illinois, and West Virginia. Throughout his recruitment, he seemed sold on the Gamecocks and wide receivers coach Mike Furrey.
“They are recruiting me hard since I’m a South Carolina kid,” Kelly-Murray told SportsTalkSC in February. “It’s only right for them to recruit me hard coming out of South Carolina. I’m number one on his board as a receiver coming out of 2027. It just shows a lot because he talks to me every day, he calls every day, and checks up on me every day.”
As a junior at Summerville in 2025, Kelly-Murray totaled 72 receptions for 1,072 receiving yards and 16 touchdowns (1,175 all-purpose yards), averaging 73.71 yards per game. He also added two interceptions and 10-plus tackles on the defensive side.
In January he announced that he would be transferring to Oceanside Collegiate for his final year.