Video: Jake Bentley among the top 10 junior quarterbacks in the country One of the nation's top quarterbacks,
Jake Bentley, will skip his senior year.
Jake Bentley
Courtesy 247Sports
The 6-foot-4, 217-pounder from
Opelika (Ala.) announced on Twitter that he will enroll this summer at South Carolina, a place he committed to last month.
Ranked the No. 5 pro style quarterback by
247Sports, Bentley threw for 2,834 yards and 28 touchdowns last season for the 12-1 Bulldogs.
He's the son of new South Carolina running backs coach Bobby Bentley, who was hired in December. The family would have been separated had Jake Bentley stayed in Alabama, and he considered transferring to another South Carolina high school. But since he had enough high school credits to graduate, he decided to reclassify.
He'll enroll at South Carolina in the summer and compete for a starting college job. Jake attended
Byrnes (Duncan, S.C.) as a freshman, but transferred to Opelika when his dad took an assistant's job at Auburn.
"It's been a long process getting approval from the SEC and the NCAA and South Carolina," Jake Bentley told
thestate.com. "It's been kind of a long deal, but we got confirmation about a week ago, and everything's good. In South Carolina I took a lot of high school courses in middle school so I was able to acquire a lot more course credits than the normal student.
"With my family moving I wouldn't want to play for any other high school than Opelika. I put a lot into that team, and what I want to be remembered as is the quarterback there. That's what went into it."
247Sports reporter Steve Wiltfong notes that Bentley isn't the
first highly touted quarterback to skip his senior year.
