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7 Opponent Roster: MISSOURI

8 Gameday Poster: USC vs. MISSOURI

14 Explaining The Game: Steve Spurrier Jr.

18 Senior Profile: D.J. Swearinger

20 GamecockCentral.com’s Recruit to Watch: Quarterback Connor Mitch

22 USC Needs To Establish Alpha Status in New Rivalry

26 USC Roster, Coaches, Depth

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LooKiNG For No. 1 uSc Searching for breakout receiver

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ON THE COVER: Alshon Jeffery hauls in a pass from Stephon Gilmore over Clemson’s Chris Chancellor during first-quarter action at Williams-Brice Stadium on Nov. 28, 2009. PHOTO By TRAViS BELL/SiDELiNE CAROLiNA.

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DeAngelo Smith hangs on to a touchdown pass over east carolina’s Jacobi Jenkins during second-quarter action at Williams-brice Stadium on Sept. 8. PHOTO By TRAViS BELL/SiDELiNE CAROLiNA

LooKiNG For No. 1

When it’s on, it’s on, and Spur-rier Jr. has reaped the benefits of it. The Gamecocks’ receivers coach, Spurrier Jr. has been blessed with three straight record-breaking pass-catchers under his direction: Sidney Rice, Kenny McKinley and Alshon Jeffery. All left an indelible mark upon the program, and it was easy to think that the next great one would come along and announce himself soon.

While the passing game in the Gamecocks’ first two games has followed the standard of Spurrier Jr.’s tenure — a sickening 67 yards against Vanderbilt segued into a healthy 397 against East Carolina — USC is still awaiting that an-nouncement. The USC receivers had an outstanding day against the Pirates, but are still waiting for the go-to label to attach itself to one player.

Who’s it going to be?“Pick one,” Spurrier Jr. recently

cracked. “Nah, we have a large group and one of them will rise to the top. I don’t know if we’ll have the kind of guys like we’ve had in the past, but if I can get a group of six every Saturday that can do as a group what those guys did by themselves, I’ll be happy.”

The group features a lot of candidates. Junior Ace Sanders has the most experience, but at 5-foot-8, he doesn’t seem likely to be the possession or jump-ball artist that the others were. D.L. Moore is a senior, but his first three years were middling at best (although Moore caught two touchdowns against East Caro-lina and could be on his way up). DeAngelo Smith had a touchdown against the Pirates, but overall he has been inconsistent in the fall despite being a standout in the spring. Bruce Ellington and Nick Jones have the hands and speed, but, like Sanders, are not blessed with height.

Prospects are heavy. Redshirt freshman K.J. Brent has a good upside. Kwinton Smith is a sky-walker from Dillon. Shaq Roland

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uSc Searching for breakout receiver

Like his father, Steve Spurrier Jr. has been at South Carolina for eight years. Like his father, he’s seen the attempts to implement a high-flying passing

game ebb and flow, but mostly ebb.

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is the latest South Carolina Mr. Football recipient to come to USC and was an all-world athlete down the road at Lexington High School. Shamier Jeffery, Alshon’s brother, is built like his sibling but has yet to establish himself as deserving of more playing time.

Many of these players had better recruiting rankings than the Big Three did. Alshon Jeffery was the most notable prospect, a four-star player by rivals.com who reneged on a verbal commitment to Southern Cal to stick close to his St. Matthews home. McKinley and Rice were each three-star recruits; Rice sat out his first year due to injury, and McKinley was a high-school quarterback who came to USC having caught just one pass during his prep career.

By that standard, it seems likely that Spurrier Jr.’s plan of letting the cream rise to the top will work. McKinley learned under Rice as the latter exploded onto the scene in 2005, then became the go-to man when Rice bolted for the NFL after the 2006 season. Jeffery was an also-ran his first few games until the coaches turned him loose against Ken-tucky in 2009; three touchdowns later, he was on his way to becom-ing the Gamecocks’ all-time leader in receiving yards (3,042), and 100-yard games (12), as well as tying with Rice for the all-time record in receiving touchdowns (23, tied with Rice).

The Gamecocks have yet to

sign a wide receiver in their class for next season, and spots are dwindling. It stands to reason that the group the team has now will still be around next year, as only Moore and walk-on Blair Lowery are seniors. No doubt, Spurrier Jr. would love to know that one of the underclassmen coming back in 2013 will be the man to demand the ball.

Yet he has a problem. There isn’t just one trait or skill or characteristic that made Rice, McKinley and Jeffery what they were. Most of what they did couldn’t be taught, and could only be discovered on game day.

They just did it. Every time.“Those guys were special,”

Spurrier Jr. said. “And a lot of it, maybe not so much with Kenny, was we had to put them in and throw it up to them. That they kept making those plays was a testament to how natural they could do it.”

The highlight reels were exten-sive. Whereas McKinley constant-ly got open and caught the ball, then turned the catch into a long gain with his ability to wiggle free, Rice and Jeffery soared through the air like twin eagles uncaged for the first time. There wasn’t a pass they couldn’t grab, making their quarterbacks’ lives easy.

For some receivers, play calls had to be a five-step drop, a turn to the right and a throw to the spot where the receiver should be if he buttonhooked two steps off

the line. One slight mistake and the pass was at best incomplete, and at worst intercepted and returned for a touchdown.

But with Rice and Jeffery, it was the standard option on every play-action pass — throw it in their general direction. (In a pleasant coincidence, the day after USC torched East Carolina through the air, Rice and Jeffery each caught a touchdown for their respective NFL teams.)

“It is going to be tough without Alshon, because he could go up and get it,” quarterback Connor Shaw recently said. “But I trust our guys to make up for him.”

Shaw, ailing with a bad shoulder, ceded to Dylan Thompson against East Carolina, and Thompson went to work. Ellington started him off with some catches in traffic; sopho-more Damiere Byrd had the day’s biggest completion with a 53-yard haul-in; and Moore and Smith were responsible for three scores between them.

Thompson revealed that the receivers had each come to his hotel room the morning of the game and told him that they were there for him. It eased Thomp-son’s mind after a lousy game at Vanderbilt and helped him to throw for 330 yards in his first collegiate start.

“We’re receivers,” Ellington said. “We want the ball and we want to throw it around. It’s great

to just catch the ball and make plays and be a part of the offense. Everybody got into the game and everybody made plays. It was fun to be out there and winning.”

Spurrier Jr. hopes that it’s the start of something big. Shaw is able to play through the pain in his shoulder, but the hope is that he heals enough so that it’s not painful at all. Saturday against Missouri might really determine how the season will progress.

Thompson has been good, but he can’t run like Shaw can. But with Shaw in, it becomes more of a running-game plan.

Yet, USC wants to be able to pass the ball no matter who is playing quarterback. It’s how Spurrier made his bones and it’s going to be necessary to win someday. Running the ball while stuck on its 30-yard-line with 45 seconds to play will not aid USC.

Whoever’s throwing, it will help if he has a great wide receiver to throw to. The Gamecocks have several receivers who are good or who can be good or who will be good. But which one is going to be great?

The search continues.“I don’t lay awake at night

thinking of that,” Spurrier Jr. said. “We have a good group. And we don’t necessarily have to have the one guy to be the star. We can get group production.”

Yet it would be nice to see that No. 1, in jersey or status, back on the field.

Damiere byrd hauls in a pass over east carolina’s Adonis Armstrong during first-quarter action at Williams-brice Stadium on Sept. 8. PHOTO By TRAViS BELL/SiDELiNE CAROLiNA

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RECRUIT TO WATChB Y C H R I S C L A R K

one position on the recruit-ing trail that fans always seem to pay extra attention

to is quarterback. In particular, many South Carolina fans have been hoping for Steve Spurrier to bring in a highly-rated signal-caller with offers from many of the name programs around the Southeast.

In January, those fans will get their wish. Quarterback Con-nor Mitch has the accolades to go along with the big numbers he’s racked up at Wakefield High School in Raleigh, N.C. The 6-foot-3, 210-pounder received scholarship offers from Alabama, Auburn, LSU, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and others. He was a regional Elite 11 participant.

Recruiting website rivals.com ranks Mitch as a four-star prospect, the nation’s 17th-best pro-style quarterback, and the ninth-ranked prospect out of North Carolina. Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell has called him the best quarterback prospect Spurrier has signed in his tenure as head man in Columbia.

After receiving an offer from USC quarterbacks coach G.A. Mangus in the spring, it did not take Mitch long to decide that USC was where he wanted to be. In early May, he pulled the trigger on a verbal commitment to the Gamecocks.

“It's just a place I wanted to be,” Mitch told rivals.com after his commitment. “It's where I felt comfortable and feel at home. It's everything I want in a college. When they offered me, I started falling in love with the

school. The second time I went back for the spring game, I knew it was the place for me.”

Having not one, but two expe-rienced teachers of quarterbacks was another facet of the USC program that Mitch felt would help him tremendously.

“Coach Spurrier is kind of like the second QB coach at South Carolina, and that’s obviously a great thing,” he told rivals.com in May.

Gamecock fans also do not have to worry about losing Mitch late to another program. In interviews with the media and on his personal Twitter account, the talented passer has frequently condemned the practice of prospects verbally committing to a program only to flip to another later in the process.

Interestingly, the athlete bloodlines in the Mitch family are strong. His father Bob was a quar-terback at Syracuse. His brother Ryan played the position at Maryland. Sister Brittany earned a basketball scholarship to Duke to play basketball and later finished her career at Lenoir-Rhyne.

Mitch will also graduate from high school in December and en-roll at USC in January, which will allow him to go through spring practice next year with USC. Dur-ing his sophomore and junior sea-sons at Wakefield, he passed for over 7,000 yards combined.

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O P I N I O N B Y J A M E S H A R L E Y

Despite already having one SEC game under its belt, it’s safe to say that South

Carolina’s matchup with Mis-souri this week is the most highly anticipated game of the year so far, as people are eager to meet and evaluate the new kid in town. While the Vanderbilt game was anticipated for many good rea-sons — first game of the season, first SEC game, first opportunity to see the team in action — ul-timately most fans were fairly confident of a win going in, which is not so much the case this week.

The Missouri game generates more nervousness and more an-

ticipation among the USC faithful because it will offer new insight into the overall competitiveness in the SEC East. Tradition makes it difficult to take Vanderbilt as a serious threat. There is no such tradition with the Tigers, and they are expected to win some games; therefore, figuring out where they belong on the ladder is under-standably suspenseful.

There is data to analyze in this pursuit, of course, but that really doesn’t have the same power as getting a feel for a team on the playing field. Although the Tigers ended up losing their first confer-ence game to Georgia by three

touchdowns, their will to keep up with the Joneses in their new SEC neighborhood surprised and impressed many, at least until the second half when they got worn out and UGA blew the game open.

It turned into a rather ironic beating, considering Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Rich-ardson’s incendiary pre-game remarks to The Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune that the Tigers would win because Georgia plays “old man football,” and that, “If we execute, nobody in this league can touch us, period.” Well,

Sheldon, regardless of how much confidence and swagger you have, it’s hard to execute when your team gets tired out by halftime … like a bunch of old men.

Still, despite being worn down by a strong and fast Georgia team, Missouri showed that it has some drive and some weapons. Coupled with the uncertainty caused by USC’s unfamiliarity with this new annual opponent, it becomes fair to wonder just who the Gamecocks are dealing with here. Are the Tigers a Vanderbilt or Kentucky that the Gamecocks can depend on to bow down in most cases, or are they a Georgia or Tennessee, who can never be counted out even if they aren’t looking that good on the surface?

Georgia rendered its opinion on the matter two weeks ago; it’s now time for USC to do the same.

The importance of winning this game is both immediate and long-range, as the Gamecocks need to establish themselves as the alpha male in this pairing. It always helps if an opponent gets used to losing and goes into each

meeting with that expectation, however unacknowledged or deeply buried the feeling might be in their psyche. Thus, this game is not just about a 2012 division title, but a possible 2020 title as well.

Need an example? The Game-cocks lost their first two games (and three of their first four) to Arkansas upon joining the SEC, and have managed to beat the Razorbacks twice in a row only two times since then, no matter how good they were or how bad Arkansas was at any given time. Simply put, the Razorbacks have

owned USC from the beginning.Thankfully, Missouri’s inclu-

sion in the SEC takes care of that particular problem by knocking the Razorbacks off of USC’s yearly schedule, starting next season. But the last thing USC wants to do is simply replace Arkansas with another team that beats USC every time they meet, which at this point is the case with Mizzou, who put the Gamecocks down most recently in 2005 (Steve Spurrier’s first year at USC) in the Independence Bowl. This may give Missouri bragging rights at the moment, but with little his-tory between the two, that status can be quickly corrected before it becomes ingrained. If USC can just jump on top of the Tigers in the conference series and establish them as a Kentucky-like “breath-er” between the traditional SEC powerhouses, the Gamecocks can add another expected win every year to the list.

Keep up with Harley’s Side Line blog at free-times.com and his Side Line column in the weekly edition of Free Times.

The last thing usc wants to do is simply replace Arkansas with another team that beats usc every time they meet, which at this point is the case with mizzou, who put the Gamecocks down most recently in 2005 (steve spurrier’s first year at usc) in the independence Bowl.

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50 A.J. Cann 6-4 309 SO-1L Bamberg, S.C. 75 Will Sport 6-5 291 FR-RS Milton, Fla. 55 T.J. Johnson 6-6 319 SR-3L Aynor, S.C. 70 Kyle Harris 6-3 268 FR-RS Silver Creek, Ga. 61 Travis Ford 6-3 278 JR-1L Fork, S.C. 67 Ronald Patrick 6-2 305 JR-1L Cocoa, Fla. 74 Kaleb Broome 6-6 332 SR-SQ Aiken, S.C.

78 Cody Gibson 6-7 278 SO-1L Tallahassee, Fla. 71 Brandon Shell 6-6 331 FR-RS Goose Creek, S.C. 87 Justice Cunningham 6-4 264 SR-3L Pageland, S.C. 89 Jerell Adams 6-6 224 FR-PG Pinewood, S.C.

81 Rory Anderson 6-5 218 SO-1L Powder Springs, Ga. 5 Kelvin Rainey 6-3 219 FR-HS Yulee, Fla.

14 Connor Shaw 6-1 207 JR-2L Flowery Branch, Ga. 17 Dylan Thompson 6-3 212 SO-1L Boiling Springs, S.C. 11 Seth Strickland 6-2 195 SR-2L Laurens, S.C.

43 Qua Gilchrist 6-1 245 SR-SQ Abbeville, S.C. 41 Connor McLaurin 6-0 222 SO-SQ Raleigh, N.C. 21 Marcus Lattimore 6-0 218 JR-2L Duncan, S.C. 31 Kenny Miles 5-9 193 SR-3L Lawrenceville, Ga. 28 Mike Davis 5-9 216 FR-HS Lithonia, Ga.

Defense 98 Devin Taylor 6-8 267 SR-3L Beaufort, S.C. 90 Chaz Sutton 6-5 248 JR-2L Savannah, Ga.

70 Byron Jerideau 6-1 316 SR-2L Green Pond, S.C. 52 Phillip Dukes 6-3 306 FR-RS Manning, S.C.

99 Kelcy Quarles 6-4 286 SO-1L Hodges, S.C. 92 Gerald Dixon Jr. 6-3 304 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C.

7 Jadeveon Clowney 6-6 256 SO-1L Rock Hill, S.C. 57 Aldrick Fordham 6-4 269 SR-3L Jamestown, S.C. 44 Gerald Dixon 6-2 272 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C.

47 Reginald Bowens 6-3 254 SR-2L Holly Springs, N.C. 33 Damario Jeffery 6-4 233 SR-3L Columbia, S.C.

54 Shaq Wilson 5-11 224 SR-3L Jacksonville, Fla. 24 Quin Smith 6-1 239 SR-3L Lenoir, N.C. 18 Cedrick Cooper 6-2 215 FR-RS Lithonia, Ga.

21 DeVonte Holloman 6-2 241 SR-3L Charlotte, N.C. 42 Jordan Diggs 6-0 197 FR-HS Fort Myers, Fla.

27 Victor Hampton 5-10 197 SO-1L Darlington, S.C. 4 Ahmad Christian 5-10 189 FR-RS Jacksonville, Fla. 12 Brison Williams 5-11 205 SO-1L Warner Robins, Ga. 25 Kadetrix Marcus 6-1 185 SO-SQ Stone Mountain, Ga.

36 D.J. Swearinger 6-0 210 SR-3L Greenwood, S.C. 28 Jared Shaw 5-10 179 SR-SQ Fort Mill, S.C.

15 Jimmy Legree 6-0 189 JR-2L Beaufort, S.C. 20 T.J. Gurley 5-10 183 FR-HS Cairo, Ga.

*Note: The depth chart lists 13 offensive positions due to the number of formations used by the team.

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TE

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TB

DE

DT

DT

DE

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WLB

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SS

FS

CB

Specialists 19 Landon Ard 5-9 189 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C. 83 Adam Yates 6-1 196 SR-1L Sparks, Md.

83 Adam Yates 6-1 196 SR-1L Sparks, Md. 19 Landon Ard 5-9 189 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C.

13 Tyler Hull 6-2 205 SO-TR Mount Airy, N.C. 13 Patrick Fish 6-0 193 SO-SQ Shelby, N.C.

23 Bruce Ellington 5-9 197 SO-1L Moncks Corner, S.C. 3 Damiere Byrd 5-9 168 SO-1L Sicklerville, N.J.

9 Ace Sanders 5-8 175 JR-2L Bradenton, Fla.

91 Walker Inabinet 5-10 204 SR-2L Columbia, S.C. 59 Coleman Harley 6-1 280 FR-RS Aiken, S.C.

11 Seth Strickland 6-2 195 SR-2L Laurens, S.C. 13 Patrick Fish 6-0 193 SO-SQ Shelby, N.C.

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5 Brendan Nosovitch QB 6-1 210 FR Allenton, Pa./Central Catholic88 Drew Owens TE 6-6 236 RS FR Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell67 Ronald Patrick OG 6-2 305 JR Cocoa, Fla./Cocoa49 Devin Potter FB 5-10 202 FR Granite Falls, N.C./South Caldwell99 Kelcy Quarles DT 6-4 286 SO Hodges, S.C./Greenwood/Fork Union

Military5 Kelvin Rainey TE 6-3 219 FR Yulee, Fla./Yulee30 Sidney Rhodes CB 5-10 170 SO Easley, S.C./Wren/Western Carolina48 Marcquis Roberts SPR 6-1 206 RS FR Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern53 Corey Robinson OT 6-8 337 RS SO Havelock, N.C./Havelock26 Kenny Robinson FS 5-9 176 RS SO Hilton Head Island, S.C./Hilton Head Island4 Shaq Roland WR 6-1 173 FR Lexington, S.C./Lexington24 Kendric Salley RB 5-9 205 FR Williston, S.C./Williston Elko1 Ace Sanders WR 5-8 175 JR Bradenton, Fla./Manatee14 Connor Shaw QB 6-1 207 JR Flowery Branch, Ga./Flowery Branch28 Jared Shaw FS 5-10 179 RS SR Fort Mill, S.C./Fort Mill/Newberry71 Brandon Shell OT 6-6 331 RS FR Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek46 Darian Sims LB 6-2 250 RS FR Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek6 DeAngelo Smith WR 6-1 196 RS JR Kingsland, Ga./Camden County9 Kwinton Smith WR 6-4 206 FR Dillon, S.C./Dillon24 Quin Smith LB 6-1 239 SR Lenoir, N.C./Hibriten75 Will Sport OT 6-5 291 RS FR Milton, Fla./Pace16 Nick St. Germain PK 5-9 182 FR Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern65 Brock Stadnik OT 6-5 287 FR Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford54 Clayton Stadnik OC 6-3 265 FR Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford11 Seth Strickland QB 6-2 195 RS SR Laurens, S.C./Laurens97 J.T. Surratt DT 6-2 295 RS SO Winston-Salem, N.C./Parkland45 Ty Sutherland FB 5-10 220 RS FR Pendleton, S.C./Pendleton90 Chaz Sutton DE 6-5 248 RS JR Savannah, Ga./Jenkins/Fork Union Military36 D.J. Swearinger FS 6-0 210 SR Greenwood, S.C./Greenwood

98 Devin Taylor DE 6-8 267 RS SR Beaufort, S.C./Beaufort17 Dylan Thompson QB 6-3 212 RS SO Boiling Springs, S.C./Boiling Springs51 Cody Waldrop OG 6-2 300 FR Seffner, Fla./Armwood95 Michael Washington DE 6-3 228 FR Allendale, S.C./Allendale-Fairfax/S.C. State85 Kane Whitehurst WR 5-11 170 RS FR Duluth, Ga./Chattahoochee/Arkansas22 Brandon Wilds TB 6-2 218 SO Blythewood, S.C./Blythewood32 David Wilkins CB 6-1 180 RS SR Cowpens, S.C./Broome12 Brison Williams SS 5-11 205 SO Warner Robins, Ga./Northside/Fork Union

Military84 Mike Williamson P 6-1 190 RS JR Norway, S.C./Orangeburg Prep/Columbia

University54 Shaq Wilson LB 5-11 224 SR Jacksonville, Fla./First Coast52 Adam Yates PK 6-1 196 RS SR Sparks, MD/Hereford77 Mason Zandi OT 6-9 266 FR Chapin, S.C./Chapin

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Offense 1 Ace Sanders 5-8 175 JR-2L Bradenton, Fla. 6 DeAngelo Smith 6-1 196 JR-1L Kingsland, Ga. 4 Shaq Roland 6-1 173 FR-HS Lexington, S.C.

23 Bruce Ellington 5-9 197 SO-1L Moncks Corner, S.C. 3 Damiere Byrd 5-9 168 SO-1L Sicklerville, N.J.

82 D.L. Moore 6-5 198 SR-3L Bowling Green, Ky. 10 Nick Jones 5-7 184 SO-1L Moore, S.C.OR 80 K.J. Brent 6-4 184 FR-RS Waxhaw, N.C.

71 Brandon Shell 6-6 331 FR-RS Goose Creek, S.C. 53 Corey Robinson 6-8 337 SO-SQ Havelock, N.C.

50 A.J. Cann 6-4 309 SO-1L Bamberg, S.C. 75 Will Sport 6-5 291 FR-RS Milton, Fla. 55 T.J. Johnson 6-6 319 SR-3L Aynor, S.C. 70 Kyle Harris 6-3 268 FR-RS Silver Creek, Ga. 61 Travis Ford 6-3 278 JR-1L Fork, S.C. 67 Ronald Patrick 6-2 305 JR-1L Cocoa, Fla. 74 Kaleb Broome 6-6 332 SR-SQ Aiken, S.C.

76 Mike Matulis 6-5 274 SO-1L Boynton Beach, Fla. 78 Cody Gibson 6-7 278 SO-1L Tallahassee, Fla. 87 Justice Cunningham 6-4 264 SR-3L Pageland, S.C. 89 Jerell Adams 6-6 224 FR-PG Pinewood, S.C.

81 Rory Anderson 6-5 218 SO-1L Powder Springs, Ga. 5 Kelvin Rainey 6-3 219 FR-HS Yulee, Fla.

14 Connor Shaw 6-1 207 JR-2L Flowery Branch, Ga. 17 Dylan Thompson 6-3 212 SO-1L Boiling Springs, S.C. 11 Seth Strickland 6-2 195 SR-2L Laurens, S.C.

43 Qua Gilchrist 6-1 245 SR-SQ Abbeville, S.C. 41 Connor McLaurin 6-0 222 SO-SQ Raleigh, N.C. 21 Marcus Lattimore 6-0 218 JR-2L Duncan, S.C. 31 Kenny Miles 5-9 193 SR-3L Lawrenceville, Ga. 28 Mike Davis 5-9 216 FR-HS Lithonia, Ga.

Defense 98 Devin Taylor 6-8 267 SR-3L Beaufort, S.C. 90 Chaz Sutton 6-5 248 JR-2L Savannah, Ga.

70 Byron Jerideau 6-1 316 SR-2L Green Pond, S.C. 52 Phillip Dukes 6-3 306 FR-RS Manning, S.C.

99 Kelcy Quarles 6-4 286 SO-1L Hodges, S.C. 92 Gerald Dixon Jr. 6-3 304 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C.

7 Jadeveon Clowney 6-6 256 SO-1L Rock Hill, S.C. 57 Aldrick Fordham 6-4 269 SR-3L Jamestown, S.C. 44 Gerald Dixon 6-2 272 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C.

47 Reginald Bowens 6-3 254 SR-2L Holly Springs, N.C. 33 Damario Jeffery 6-4 233 SR-3L Columbia, S.C.

54 Shaq Wilson 5-11 224 SR-3L Jacksonville, Fla. 24 Quin Smith 6-1 239 SR-3L Lenoir, N.C. 18 Cedrick Cooper 6-2 215 FR-RS Lithonia, Ga.

21 DeVonte Holloman 6-2 241 SR-3L Charlotte, N.C. 42 Jordan Diggs 6-0 197 FR-HS Fort Myers, Fla.

27 Victor Hampton 5-10 197 SO-1L Darlington, S.C. 4 Ahmad Christian 5-10 189 FR-RS Jacksonville, Fla. 12 Brison Williams 5-11 205 SO-1L Warner Robins, Ga. 25 Kadetrix Marcus 6-1 185 SO-SQ Stone Mountain, Ga.

36 D.J. Swearinger 6-0 210 SR-3L Greenwood, S.C. 28 Jared Shaw 5-10 179 SR-SQ Fort Mill, S.C.

15 Jimmy Legree 6-0 189 JR-2L Beaufort, S.C. 20 T.J. Gurley 5-10 183 FR-HS Cairo, Ga.

*Note: The depth chart lists 13 offensive positions due to the number of formations used by the team.

WR

WR

WR

LT

LG

C

RG

RT

TE

TE

QB

FB

TB

DE

DT

DT

DE

MLB

WLB

SPR

CB

SS

FS

CB

Specialists 19 Landon Ard 5-9 189 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C. 52 Adam Yates 6-1 196 SR-1L Sparks, Md.

52 Adam Yates 6-1 196 SR-1L Sparks, Md. 19 Landon Ard 5-9 189 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C.

13 Tyler Hull 6-2 205 SO-TR Mount Airy, N.C. 13 Patrick Fish 6-0 193 SO-SQ Shelby, N.C.

23 Bruce Ellington 5-9 197 SO-1L Moncks Corner, S.C. 3 Damiere Byrd 5-9 168 SO-1L Sicklerville, N.J.

9 Ace Sanders 5-8 175 JR-2L Bradenton, Fla.

91 Walker Inabinet 5-10 204 SR-2L Columbia, S.C. 59 Coleman Harley 6-1 280 FR-RS Aiken, S.C.

11 Seth Strickland 6-2 195 SR-2L Laurens, S.C. 13 Patrick Fish 6-0 193 SO-SQ Shelby, N.C.

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