Rahsul Faison is coming off his best college football season yet. The former Utah State running back ran for 1,109 yards and eight touchdowns in 2024, which caught the attention of some of the top schools in the country, including the South Carolina Gamecocks.
At the end of the 2024 season, Faison entered the portal and transferred to South Carolina, where he was expecting to play his final season at the college level. However, the young running back’s eligibility is in question, as the NCAA has yet to approve him to play in 2025. Now, Faison is warning all of college football that he will dominate if he’s allowed to play.
Rahsul Faison Sends Warning to the College Football World Amid Eligibility Concerns
South Carolina transfer running back Rahsul Faison, whose eligibility is up in the air due to the issue, issued a message on X to the college football world as he waits to hear from the NCAA on whether he can play or not in 2025.
This shii gone get serious when they give me my year back 🫡
— Rahsul faison🔋 (@__sul3) June 25, 2025
Faison has had an interesting college football career, to say the least. The 25-year-old running back was a member of the 2019 recruiting class and committed to Marshall out of high school.
As 247Sports’ John Wittle reported, Faison gray-shirted at Marshall, meaning he delayed his enrollment to the Thundering Herd to see more playing time down the line.
Unfortunately, that did not pan out, and he left Marshall to take online classes at Lackawanna College in 2020. In 2021, Faison enrolled at Snow College, a JUCO, and did not play football until the 2022 season.
After an impressive 2022, Faison transferred to Utah State, where he played for the Aggies in 2023 and 2024. Under the NCAA’s eligibility rules, a player can only play in four Division I football seasons in a five-year span.
Faison has only played in three seasons, one of which was in JUCO, so by all accounts, he should be able to suit up for the Gamecocks in 2025. However, the NCAA has not granted him eligibility because this would be his seventh year of college.
Faison’s case is similar to Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia’s, who was granted an extra year of eligibility for the 2025 season after arguing that his years of JUCO did not give him the opportunity to earn money from NIL, which other Division I athletes received.
Faison’s lawyer and South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer are arguing a similar case for Faison and have submitted all the necessary paperwork for the running back to be able to play for the Gamecocks in 2025.
Those requests were submitted in January, and as of right now, there is no official date on when the NCAA will officially decide whether Faison can play, but it’s clear that the running back is eager to get back out on the field.
