One of the most chaotic careers in college football history has finally reached its final destination with the commitment of Rashad Amos to Georgia State on Friday afternoon. Or has it?!
The Class of 2020 recruit is on his seventh different school in total and his sixth since 2023, representing six different states in five different conferences.
Amos, a former three-star prospect, hails from Tyrone, Georgia. He committed to continue his college football career at Georgia State through the spring transfer portal window but there is no telling if it will stick based on his history. I genuinely do not know if there has been a wilder sequence of events in the history of this modern era, and thus, in the history of the sport.
We begin this wild timeline way back in 2019. Amos committed to play for Western Kentucky on July 19. He decommitted from Western Kentucky on Nov. 6 and reopened his recruitment.
South Carolina offered on No. 12. Amos visited on Dec. 13. He signed with the Gamecocks on Dec. 18.
That was stop number one. Rashad Amos got 18 carries in 2020, redshirted in 2021 and ran for only seven yards on two carries in 2022.
The limited playing time at South Carolina led him to enter the transfer portal. He ultimately ended up at Miami of Ohio. It was a breakout season. Amos ran for 1,075 yards and 13 touchdowns on 210 carries with the Redhawks as a redshirt junior in 2023.
Watch the whole tape it only gets better! pic.twitter.com/cFfdUvA4U1
— Rashad Amos (A-mus) (@1dreamShad) December 27, 2023
The impressive season in the MAC led Amos to re-enter the transfer portal prior to 2024 in search of another opportunity on the “power conference” level. This is where things really get crazy.
Rashad Amos committed to Mississippi State on April 13. However, that did not last long. Coach Prime got in his ear and got him to visit Boulder. He flipped his commitment to Colorado on April 26.
That did not last long either.
Lane Kiffin needed depth at running back so the head coach at Ole Miss went after Amos in the portal. The highly-coveted running back flipped his commitment, again, from the Buffaloes to the Rebels on May 18. It stuck!
However, the grass was not greener. Rashad Amos tumbled down the depth chart in Mississippi and carried the ball only nine times last season.
There was no point in sticking around for next year so it was back in the transfer portal. Memphis added him to the roster on Dec. 23. He stayed through spring practice but that, too, did not work out.
Amos hopped back into the portal on April 16 and committed to Georgia State on Friday, two days later. To recap:
- South Carolina: June 1, 2020 – January 1, 2023
- Miami (OH): January 1, 2023 – December 23, 2023
- Mississippi State: April 13, 2024 – April 26, 2024
- Colorado: April 26, 2024 – May 18, 2024
- Ole Miss: May 18, 2024 – December 1, 2024
- Memphis: December 23, 2024 – April 16, 2025
- Georgia State: April 18, 2025 – ??
As a sixth-year senior, Rashad Amos will have one year of eligibility remaining. I think. All of these new rulings make it hard to keep track. What a run!