South Alabama wide receiver Jamaal Pritchett has been placed on scholarship, head coach Kane Wommack said Friday.

Pritchett, a junior from Jackson, joined the Jaguars as a walk-on last fall after transferring from Division II Tuskegee. After playing in eight games in a reserve role for the Jaguars in 2022, he has been working with the first-team offense alongside fellow receivers Caullin Lacy and Devin Voisin since the spring.

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“Jamaal took a chance, a D2 player that produced at a high level and then came to the FBS level to live out his dream,” Wommack said. “He did exactly that. He continued to show up and produced as a walk-on a year ago, as we went through spring ball and now into fall camp.

“He’s established himself as one of the best players on our football team, and certainly of the best playmakers. He knows what to do, shows up and works every day, is a consistent guy.”

Lacy and Voisin combined to catch 129 passes for 1,687 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2022, but no returning wide receiver on the team had more than four catches in 2022. Pritchett filled in for an injured Jalen Wayne (now with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns) late in the season-ending New Orleans Bowl, and caught two passes for 24 yards.

The 5-foot-8, 164-pound Pritchett was Tuskegee’s leading receiver as a freshman in 2021, catching 27 passes for 488 yards and three touchdowns. He is a first cousin of Auburn cornerback Nehemiah Pritchett.