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South Carolina 4-star wide receiver reclassifies to Class of 2025

Irmo's Donovan Murph has 30 offers as he clears the way to start his college football career next fall

Mike Duprez

Irmo 4-star wide receiver Donovan Murph of Columbia South Carolina was a guest at Colorado's spring game in April. He announced his reclassified to the Class of 2025 on Tuesday.
Irmo 4-star wide receiver Donovan Murph of Columbia South Carolina was a guest at Colorado's spring game in April. He announced his reclassified to the Class of 2025 on Tuesday. / Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images

Irmo 4-star wide receiver Donovan Murph will start his college career a year earlier than previously expected.

The 6-foot-3, 190-pounder has reclassified from 2026 to 2025, meaning he is now a senior instead of a junior. Murph has drawn the interest of numerous Power-4 schools.

“This has always been on my mind,” Murph told On3.com. “…I knew I had the opportunity to and the ability to do it, so I put the work in and will graduate next spring.”

Murph made the announcement live on his Instagram on Tuesday.

He had plenty of encouragement, too.

“I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of weeks now,” Murph told TheBigSpur. “I’ve been going on these visits and each school has been talking to me about, why don’t you just come now? We’ll take you now.”

Murph has a lot of suitors. 

The top 11 schools for Murph, as he told On3, are Alabama, Clemson, Colorado, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Auburn, Georgia, Penn State, Oregon, and Ohio State. He has offers from all those schools. So far, Murph has 30 offers altogether.

Murph has caught 42 passes for 600 yards and 3 touchdowns so far this season for the undefeated Yellow Jackets. 

The 247Sports Composite has Murph ranked as the No. 6 prospect in South Carolina.

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Mike Duprez
MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.

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