Shane Beamer Delivers Strong Message About LaNorris Sellers’ Potential in 2025

"He continued to get better throughout the year. He’s continued to get better since the season ended, through January, February and then March and April with spring practice,” Beamer said on "Always College Football." 

After splitting the first six games of the 2024 season, Sellers and the Gamecocks ripped off six consecutive wins — including victories over four ranked teams, the Texas A&M Aggies and Clemson Tigers among them. Sellers engineered a late game-winning drive to knock off Clemson on Nov. 30; his 20-yard run with one minute, eight seconds remaining secured a 17-14 victory in the Palmetto Bowl, on a day when he accounted for 330 total yards.

According to Beamer, that win was part of a series of life-changing events for Sellers, who is generating plenty of Heisman Trophy buzz entering the 2025 season. The Gamecocks open the campaign with a visit to Virginia Tech on Aug. 31.

"I think his life has changed a lot," Beamer said. "You’re the quarterback at the University of South Carolina. You’re already on a pedestal. You’re from South Carolina, an hour down the road from Florence, and you’re even more so on a pedestal. With as good of a player as he is, it’s different.”