South Carolina extends two more QB offers

The South Carolina football team added a pair of quarterbacks in the 2016 recruiting cycle, but the staff is still on the lookout for more arms.

The Gamecocks offered a pair of committed passers in Kaymen Cureton, a three-start prospect from Long Beach, California currently pledged to San Jose State, and James Foster, a 2018 passer from Alabama currently committed to North Carolina.

Cureton (6-foot-2, 195 pounds) of Los Angeles and this was not just some throw away offer to a West Coast prospect. Cureton’s grandmother lives in Beaufort and thus he takes the offer from the Gamecocks seriously.

“USC is of sincere interest because my grandmother and a large part of my family actually live in South Carolina,” Cureton said. “I would be coming into a family environment which is huge for me because that’s just the type of guy I am. I’m glad it has actually came true. It’s a huge school to be offered by and it’s SEC Football, meaning that only few guys out this way get offers like this because it’s major talent out in the South.”

Cureton threw for 3,787 passing yards this season along with 773 rushing and 34 total TD’s in 2015. Some of the offers besides USC are LSU, Boston College, Hawaii, San Diego State, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado State.

“I think I’ll be able to put a list of schools together that are of my own personal importance near the beginning or middle of my senior season,” he said.

USC recruiter Travaris Robinson made the contact with Cureton Friday and got the ball rolling on the offer from Will Muschamp and Kurt Roper.

“Coach spoke with me briefly, he’s extremely cool,” Cureton said. “We were able to joke and laugh. I believe he spoke with Coach Roper and he put him on speaker and he spoke to me about my game play and the things he liked. He told my coach about the offer and he passed it on to me.”

James Foster also has offers from Tennessee and Mississippi State. The 6-foot-3, 197-pounder came back from being run over by a car as a freshman and accounted for 1,066 yards in his first five games in 2015.

Foster committed to UNC in November and will visit Tennessee Saturday.

The Gamecocks already have some youth at quarterback as early enrollee freshman Brandon McIlwain finished the spring taking No. 1 reps and Jake Bentley reclassified to join the 2016 class.

This story was originally published April 15, 2016 at 5:23 PM with the headline "South Carolina extends two more QB offers."