South Carolina’s Jacarrius Peak suffers serious knee injury, reports say
South Carolina transfer offensive lineman Jacarrius Peak suffered a major knee injury this week, multiple sources confirmed to The State on Saturday.
The exact injury and how it happened were not immediately known, but a USC spokesperson told The State on Sunday that Peak “suffered a lower-body injury earlier this week and will miss spring practice. We expect he will be available this season.”
According to On3’s Chris Low, Peak suffered the injury while playing basketball. South Carolina had its team 3-on-3 basketball tournament this week.
If the NC State transfer misses any amount of time, it would be a major blow to South Carolina.
A 6-foot-4, 300-pound college veteran, 247 Sports ranked Peak as the No. 3 transfer offensive tackle and No. 36 overall player available in the portal. He signed with South Carolina over Alabama out of the portal.
Peak started all 13 games at left tackle for NC State last year and was named an All-ACC Honorable Mention. Per Pro Football Focus, he was in pass protection on 486 snaps and allowed just three sacks and 10 quarterback hurries.
Peak, a Valdosta, Georgia native, was a three-star prospect in the Class of 2022 and enrolled at South Carolina with one year of eligibility remaining.
After giving up over 40 sacks in each of the previous three seasons, South Carolina worked this offseason to revitalize its offensive line room.
That started with the hiring of O-line coach Randy Clements, who followed new offensive coordinator Kendal Briles over from TCU. It continued in the transfer portal, where the Gamecocks landed eight transfer offensive linemen, highlighted by Peak.
In early February, just weeks after getting Peak on campus, South Carolina Director of Player Personnel Darren Uscher said Peak could be the “foundational piece of a program.”
“It’s an easy plug and play for us at whatever spot that (he) ends up. You’d love for it to be (at) left tackle,” Uscher said on ‘GamecockCentral Live.’ “That’s a guy you go out and get; and we had the resources in order to do so. We had our eye on him for a long time.”
This story was originally published February 21, 2026 at 8:16 PM.
