Green Sea Floyds Star Dixon’s Illustrious Run Coming To An End

Ian Guerin October 29, 2020 @ 09:06 AM

This isn’t the way anyone saw [player_tooltip player_id="59324" first="JaQuan" last="Dixon"]’s final high school snaps taking place. After leading Green Sea Floyds to Class 1A state titles in 2018 and 2019, COVID-19 and a heavily depleted supporting cast threw the tailback’s fourth and final season into flux and then left it with an unceremonious ending. Dixon and the rest of the Trojans will play their final game this season on Friday against Aynor - one week before the end of the regular season and without a playoff spot to be had during the abbreviated postseason set in place by the South Carolina High School League. That’s the sad part for Dixon and plenty of other athletes whose senior seasons were a shell of what anyone expected. But for such a dynamic player it won’t take all of the luster off a player who will have opportunities to play NCAA Division-I football next year. CAREER AT A SNAPSHOT Dixon’s next-to-last game (Week 5 against Timmonsville) quietly pushed him past a major milestone without anyone initially noticing. His 200-plus-yard evening landed him at 4,134 career rushing yards, meaning he’s just the third player in any of Horry County’s nine programs to reach the 4,000-yard plateau in the last decade. Dixon has also already scored 70 total touchdowns heading into his final game. Nearly half of those came as a junior, when his 32 trips to the end zone helped the Trojans blow out just about everyone along the way en route to the second straight state championship under previous coach Donnie Kiefer. Dixon’s production slipped some this season - again, due to plenty of forces outside his control - but he’s still on pace to finish the six-game season with more than 800 yards rushing and 15 touchdowns. THOSE TWO CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES Green Sea Floyds was absolutely loaded during the 2018 and 2019 title runs. But don’t assume that meant Dixon was simply another cog in the system. As a sophomore in the championship against powerhouse Lamar (which was making its fourth consecutive finals appearance), Dixon made sure everyone knew his name by rushing for 247 yards and two touchdowns and caught an 11-yard touchdown pass. Green Sea Floyds won 26-20, and Dixon got his first ring. Last year in Columbia against Ridge Spring Monetta, he kept it going. Dixon finished the game with 132 yards rushing, caught a 32-yard pass, returned a kickoff 26 yards and recorded four tackles on defense. The Trojans won 48-12, and Dixon got himself some more hardware. WHERE TO NOW? When Dixon takes off his pads after the game against Aynor, it almost assuredly won’t be for the last time. Despite the oddities of the recruiting calendar and colleges having the luxury of bringing back players without docking their eligibility windows, Dixon does have two solid offers already. Sun Belt program Georgia State has been all over him; reps have attended multiple games this season alone. FCS program North Carolina A&T, his other offer, has already proved it can make the most of a tailback from this area (former Conway star Jah-Maine Martin rushed for 1,400 yards and 21 touchdowns for the Aggies in 2019). Dixon’s coaches believe another school or two will hand him an offer before signing day after some of the other dominoes fall. Either way, Dixon is a commitment away from getting to play on Saturdays after such a stellar prep career.