2025 Rankings Update: The Stockrisers

Every rankings cycle, we take everything we've seen and heard and applied it to the players we already included.   Naturally, there's plenty of movement up and down before we ever add a single new name to the list. Below, we identified 14 who earned every bit of a bump from their performances throughout the 2023 season.   That's only part of the good news. The rest is that they still have another year to impress South Carolina football fans and the unaffiliated alike.   EDITOR'S NOTE: All measurements cited in story supplied Catapult's GPS systems during official state-run combines.   NOTABLE RISERS   [player_tooltip player_id='272716' first='Andon' last='Hawkins'] LB, Midland Valley (Up 11 spots)   Hawkins (5-foot-7, 212 pounds) is a fierce competitor who is always around the ball. The middle linebacker finished with 187 tackles and 18 tackles for loss in 2023.   [player_tooltip player_id='272722' first='Zion' last='Gilbert'] RB, South Florence (Up 17 spots)   Gilbert is every bit of 5-foot-11 and 190 pounds and that uptick in size from his sophomore season (at Carolina Forest) to his junior year at South Florence allowed him to sustain a huge work load.   [player_tooltip player_id='346196' first='Jamarion' last='Fling'] RB, Dillon (Up 24 spots)   Dillon's grind-it-out scheme relied upon a tailback who could handle it, and Fling made sure that wasn't an issue. In 10 games, he had 191 carries for 1,584 yards (8.3 ypc) and 34 touchdowns.   [player_tooltip player_id='367350' first='Jaden' last='Cummings'] QB, Summerville (Up 32 spots)   Cummings' numbers in 2023 were brilliant. He completed 68.4 percent of his passes for 2,998 yards and 32 touchdowns. He threw only four picks all season in 247 attempts. His four rushing touchdowns were icing on the cake.   [player_tooltip player_id='1012637' first='Jackson' last='Repp'] WR, Christ Church (Up 44 spots)   A week after capping off his state championship season with 1,510 receiving yards and 27 touchdowns, the 5-foot-8, 152-pound Repp showed up to the Joanne Langfitt Challenge and hit 22.817 miles per hour.   [player_tooltip player_id='1012706' first='Josh' last='Smith'] DL, Dutch Fork (Up 70 spots)   At 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, Smith piled up 15 tackles for loss and six sacks for Dutch Fork. A huge chunk of that production came during the playoffs, when the Silver Foxes reigned supreme again.   BIGGEST MOVERS BY POSITION   [player_tooltip player_id='809745' first='Max' last='Moorman'] LB, Oceanside Collegiate (Up 17 spots)   State champion linebacker was part of a dynamic unit in the middle of the Landsharks defense. He finished with 97 total tackles, 12 sacks, eight pass break-ups and 14 quarterback hurries.    [player_tooltip player_id='346193' first='Zeke' last='Marshall'] DB, Westside (Up 17 spots)   No reason to start with anything other than the obvious. Marshall picked off nine passes. Nine. That's not normal. Marshall, like Moorman, played a huge role in a state championship.    [player_tooltip player_id='1013073' first='Jaquavious' last='Dodd'] DL, Eastside (Up 79 spots)   Now measuring a cool 6-foot-6 and 220 pounds (measured during Langfitt), Dodd is a match-up nightmare at this level, something he proved with 24 tackles for loss and 13 sacks during his junior season.    [player_tooltip player_id='1012627' first='Landon' last='Stone'] RB, Clover (Up 25 spots)   In total, 10 tailbacks in the state rushed for 2,000 yards last fall. Stone was one of them, as he averaged 8.6 yards per carry en route to 2,107 yards, some 1,800 more than he had a season ago.    [player_tooltip player_id='1013068' first='Tucker' last='Hendrix'] QB, Christ Church (Up 72 spots)   While the 6-foot, 150-pound Hendrix isn't necessarily jumping off a lot of charts right now, winning doesn't lie. Nor do the 2,800 passing yards or 43 touchdowns he put up during another Christ Church title run.   [player_tooltip player_id='1012834' first='Malik' last='Clark'] WR, Rock Hill (Up 71 spots)   Clark's recent recruiting haul was of little surprise. Those who watched him this year saw a potential big-time star in the making, and not simply because of who his quarterback was. Clark certainly will have the opportunity to play on a huge college stage.   NEW TO THE TOP FIVE   [player_tooltip player_id='605525' first='Marquise' last='Henderson'] and [player_tooltip player_id='272713' first='AJ' last='Brand'] just had those types of years that exceeded even their lofty preseason expectations.    Brand led Irmo to a 13-0 start and a berth in the Class 4A Lower State championship game by throwing for 2,932 yards and 45 touchdowns while rushing for another 1113 yards and 17 scores. Brand had plenty of weapons surrounding him, but more often than not he orchestrated it all to near perfection. It was all worth an 11-spot jump to No. 4 in the class.    Henderson (pictured), the Belton-Honea Path tailback, put one heck of a bow on his huge junior season when he verbally committed to Clemson in mid-December. By that point, he'd added a 2,336-yard, 37-touchdown campaign to his high school resume. He'll enter his senior season with just shy of 4,500 career rushing yards and 67 total touchdowns, and - barring something crazy this offseason - Prep RedZone South Carolina's top overall ranking in the Class of 2025.

Every rankings cycle, we take everything we've seen and heard and applied it to the players we already included.