Top Georgia Running Back Commits to South Carolina

Per TheBigSpur, Stephenson High School Running Back Mike Davis has committed to USC during his official visit this weekend. The Stone Mountain, GA native is a 247sports Top 50 high school prospect and is the top rated back in the state of Georgia. Davis is the third prospect, Carlos Hood & Kyle Fleetwood, to pledge to the Gamecocks from Stephenson HS in the 2012 recruiting cycle. He is the eleventh verbal commitment for the Gamecocks from the Peach state.
Davis was a one-time Florida commitment but had a falling out with the Gators’ staff and re-opened his recruitment back in early December of last year. USC Defensive Coordinator Lorenzo Ward has been the point man on Davis’ recruitment all along and never gave up on the highly regarded prospect from the Atlanta Metro area even when he was a verbal commitment to Florida.

Heading into the USC visit, Carolina was perceived to be in the lead to acquire Davis’ services come National Signing Day with UGA the closest competition, but this afternoon Georgia secured its second running back commitment from a highly touted prospect, Todd Gurley, out of North Carolina (its second from the Tarheel state) and that pretty much cast Davis’ lot for South Carolina even though the Gamecocks were already the team to beat.

According to 247sports, Davis is a four-start prospect and the 45th ranked prospect overall. He is ranked the 5th best running back overall by 247sports.

Mike Davis is the younger brother of former Clemson Tigers running back James Davis who actually accompanied his little brother to Columbia this weekend.

This is a huge commitment for the Gamecocks coaching staff to secure. Congratulations to Lorenzo Ward for his hard work in the ATL Metro area this year where he has been just killing it with eight verbal commitments from his recruiting territory.

This is the 24th verbal commitment for the Gamecocks in the 2012 class.

Go Gamecocks!