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Trai Jones

  • position OL
  • height 6-2
  • weight 310
  • class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Abbeville, S.C.
  • High school Abbeville
  • position OL
  • height 6-2
  • weight 310
  • class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Abbeville, S.C.
  • High school Abbeville

Trai Jones Bio

* 2022 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
* 2021 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
* 2020-21 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

Offensive lineman who played in 29 career games with six starts over the past four seasons… also saw action at fullback during his Gamecock career and scored a receiving touchdown in 2021.

2023 (Redshirt Junior)
Appeared in each of the first eight games of the season before missing the final four contests with an injury… worked in a backup role through the season’s first five contests before moving into the starting lineup at left guard against Florida… started three-consecutive games – Florida, Missouri and Texas A&M, before leaving the A&M contest with an injury.

2022 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Third-year offensive lineman who played in 12 contests including three starts… made appearances in the first five games of the season before sitting out against Kentucky… played in each of the final seven games, including starts at left guard against Missouri, Vanderbilt and Florida… named to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll.

2021 (Redshirt Freshman)
Appeared in nine games, primarily on special teams as a lineman, but also saw some action at the fullback position… played in just one of the first four games before he swapped his number 72 for number 44 and lined up in the backfield at Tennessee… touched the ball once, catching a three-yard touchdown pass from Jason Brown late in the first half against Auburn to knot the game at 14… it was the first time he had touched the ball in a game since his pre-teen days… earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors for his efforts in that contest… named to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll.

2020 (Freshman)
True freshman offensive lineman who enrolled in January and went through the abbreviated spring drills… suffered an ankle injury during preseason camp and was sidelined for the remainder of the season… redshirted… named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL
A mid-year graduate from Abbeville (S.C.) High School… played on both the offensive and defensive lines… named first team all-state by the South Carolina coaches… helped the Panthers reach the state semifinals in Class 2A before bowing out with a 13-1 record in 2019… led the team to a pair of state titles in 2017 and 2018… selected to the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas… coached by Jamie Nickles… Rivals considered him the 12th-best player in the Palmetto State… ranked as the ninth-best player in South Carolina, the 15th-best offensive center in the country and No. 623 overall in the 247Sports Composite.

PERSONAL
Traizhan DaMyron Jones was born Aug. 22, 2002… earned a degree in criminology and criminal justice.