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Mark SchlabachMar 3, 2026, 02:34 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Senior college football writer Multiple Authors<\/p>\n South Carolina<\/a>‘s offensive line took another hit Tuesday when coach Shane Beamer announced that starting left tackle Josiah Thompson<\/a> would probably miss the 2026 season with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n Thompson, who started 24 of 25 games at left tackle the past two seasons, will undergo surgery, Beamer told reporters in a news conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n “I don’t anticipate Josiah being able to play this upcoming season,” Beamer said. “[It] is an injury that really goes back to a couple of years ago, a lower-body issue that he’s been dealing with that we knew a couple of years ago that surgery was the most likely end result for him.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n “He kind of played through it last season, but in order for him to be at his best as a football player beyond college, it’s one of those things that kind of needed to happen at some point.”<\/p>\n Beamer didn’t specify Thompson’s injury, but said it wasn’t “long-term.”<\/p>\n “I don’t anticipate him being back [from] that surgery in order to play this upcoming season,” Beamer said.<\/p>\n The Gamecocks, who are trying to rebound from last season’s 4-8 campaign, were already without NC State<\/a> transfer tackle Jacarrius Peak<\/a>, who injured his knee in the team’s 3-on-3 basketball tournament last month.<\/p>\n Peak will miss spring practice and will be limited in summer workouts, but he should be ready for the start of the regular season, according to Beamer.<\/p>\n “It’s not a catastrophic season-ending injury where it’s all gloom and doom,” Beamer told reporters last week.<\/p>\n Peak started 33 games for the Wolfpack in three seasons. He was the No. 7 player in ESPN’s transfer portal rankings after allowing only four sacks in more than 1,100 career snaps in pass protection, per ESPN Research.<\/p>\n Thompson, who was only the second offensive lineman named South Carolina’s Mr. Football in 2023, entered the transfer portal in January, before opting 11 days later to return to the Gamecocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark SchlabachMar 3, 2026, 02:34 PM ET CloseSenior college football writer Author of seven books on college football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-789825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116167163093212206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAuthor of seven books on college football
\nGraduate of the University of Georgia<\/p>\n