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Nickname: Aggies Conference: Southeastern Conference 2013 Record: 9-4 (4-4 SEC) 2014 Record: 0-0 (0-0 SEC) Series Record: 0-0 Coach: Kevin Sumlin Years as Coach: 2 Career Record at Texas A&M: 20-6 Last Meeting: N/A (first meeting) Returning Starters: 14 (5 offense, 9 defense)
THREE TO WATCH Tra Carson, running back
Speedy Noil, wide receiver
Last year, Texas A&M’s backfield was a crowded place, especially with Johnny Manziel taking his share of the carries. This year, there’s more room to run: Tre Carson only carried the ball 62 times last year, but he averaged 5.3 yards per carry and punched in seven touchdowns. He’ll likely still split carries with fellow juniors Trey Williams and Brandon Williams, but strong performances in late-season games coupled with a strong spring and fall means Carson will probably get the lion’s share.
Whoever replaces Johnny Manziel under center — sophomore Kenny Hill’s experience got him the starting nod, but true freshman Kyle Allen is one of the most touted prospects in Aggie history — is blessed with an athletically gifted wide receiving corps. And perhaps none more so than the appropriately named Speedy Noil, a true freshman and five-star recruit whose nickname gives a pretty good hint at his skill set. His speed and explosiveness in open space could challenge the Gamecocks’ largely untested secondary.
Justin Mastrogiovanni, middle linebacker Like the Gamecocks’ defense, the Aggies’ D is in turmoil. A&M’s defense was lousy against both the run and the pass last year, and several of the Aggies’ young defensive studs were arrested and booted from the team in the offseason. If the Aggies have a hope of corralling Mike Davis, it’ll come from their deep linebacking corps. But someone from that crew has to step up, and smart money is on Justin Mastrogiovanni, a strong, physical tackler who’s reportedly emerging as the leader of the Aggie D.
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Quarterback Dylan Thompson looks for an open receiver against Florida in 2012. Thompson steps into the starting role this year, but who succeeds him when he graduates is uncertain. photo by Travis Bell/Sideline Carolina
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erry Colquitt waited patiently for five years to become Tennessee’s starting quarterback. In 1994, he finally got his opportunity to direct the Vols offense — but his season lasted only seven plays. Colquitt tore his ACL on Tennessee’s opening drive at UCLA, forcing the Vols to put backup (and future major-league first baseman) Todd Helton
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into the game. Three weeks later, Helton likewise suffered a season-ending knee injury and was replaced by heralded true freshman quarterback Peyton Manning.
The rest, as they say, is history. Fast-forward 18 years. By late November 2012, South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw was struggling to shake a nagging foot injury he’d suffered a few weeks earlier. When the Gamecocks got off the team bus after arriving in Clemson for the annual Palmetto Bowl, Shaw was wearing a walking boot, shocking the hundreds of Carolina fans greeting the team. Come kickoff, Dylan Thompson was called upon to make his second start of the season, and the redshirt sophomore from
Boiling Springs responded by completing 23 passes for 310 yards and three touchdowns to go along with a key 20-yard scamper on a third-and-19 play, setting up the clinching fourth quarter touchdown in Carolina’s 27-17 victory. Point being: Always have a dependable backup quarterback waiting in the wings. Even considering the momentous losses of defensive line standouts Jadeveon Clowney (the daunting task of replacing the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft doesn’t occur every year) and Kelcy Quarles, the departure usc VS. texas a&m
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of quarterback Connor Shaw is equally noteworthy, and no less harrowing. Developing quality depth at the most visible position in football is perhaps the Gamecocks’ biggest concern entering Steve Spurrier’s 10th season as head coach. It’s been known for months that Thompson would be the starting quarterback opening night against Texas A&M so long as he stayed healthy. But playing quarterback in the SEC is not for the meek or timid. Quarterbacks are injured and often break down physically from the weekly pounding delivered by SEC defenders. Shaw was as physically tough and rugged as any quarterback in the country, yet he still missed a few games in his celebrated career (East Carolina and Clemson in 2012) and sat out significant portions of others (Central Florida and Missouri in 2013). Because Thompson is clearly at his best when he is comfortably throwing from the pocket,
his skill set differs significantly from Shaw’s. Spurrier has vowed to protect Thompson with play calling that minimizes the chances of injury. But in the SEC, catastrophe is possible on every snap. So, what happens if Thompson is hurt or loses his effectiveness? Do the Gamecocks have a dependable backup on the roster ready to go in and lead them to victory, just as Thompson did at Clemson in 2012 and against Central Florida last season? The answer to that vital question right now is murky, at best. “We’ll find out” if Carolina can win with an untested quarterback under center, says quarterbacks coach G.A. Mangus. “Right now, Dylan is the starting quarterback.” With Thompson eager to seize the moment in his one shot as Carolina’s starting quarterback, Spurrier emphasized during camp he would not rush into naming a backup quarterback. It’s very likely that
the Gamecocks could slot a few quarterbacks as the backup by season’s end. “We don’t have to make that decision until game time,” Spurrier said. “We’ll let them keep competing for it. Who would go in there? Probably both of them. When the first one messes up, the other one would go in. Who knows? They could be co-number twos.” Heading in the home stretch of preseason camp, two young quarterbacks with impressive prep-school credentials had emerged to battle tooth-and-nail for the No. 2 job: redshirt freshman Connor Mitch and walk-on sophomore Perry Orth. Mitch has yet to take a snap in college after signing with the Gamecocks in 2013, but he posted one of the most prolific careers by any signal caller in the annals of North Carolina high school football. Mitch threw for 12,078 yards and 153 touchdowns in four years at Wakefield High School in Raleigh, North
Carolina, and received offers from such top-flight programs as Alabama and Auburn. Orth compiled some impressive numbers at Ponte Vedra High School in St. Johns County, Florida, but garnered little interest from major schools. The competition between Mitch and Orth throughout preseason camp could best be described as friendly. “We’re all really great friends, so we try not to talk about it that much,” Mitch says. “But getting into a SEC game is something I’ve dreamed about since I was little. Keep working hard, and hopefully I’ll get there. Right now, all I can ask for is getting better each and every day at practice and helping the offense out as much as possible.” Orth, who chose to walk on at Carolina rather than accept one of the scholarships extended to him by multiple Football Championship Subdivision schools, completed just one pass for five yards last season.
Perry Orth rears back to pass during spring practice. Orth, a sophomore, and redshirt freshman Connor Mitch are battling for the backup quarterback spot. photo by Paul Collins/ Gamecock Central
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Connor Mitch looks downfield during spring practice. photo by Paul Collins/Gamecock Central
“We both want to do what’s best for the team,” Orth says. “If Connor is the guy, hopefully that will benefit the team. If I’m the guy, hopefully that will benefit the team as well. Connor is very smooth about everything he does. It’s obvious why he was so highly recruited. He’s a great quarterback and understands the game. Trying to compete with him every day is tough.” So, what happened? How did Carolina find itself in this predicament, with a fifth-year senior starter and two backups with virtually no experience battling for the No. 2 job? In searching for an answer to those important questions, we need to go back to National Signing Day in February 2011, when Carolina signed Tanner McEvoy, a 6-foot-5, 200-pound dual-threat quarterback from New Jersey. A year later, the Gamecocks signed Brendan Nosovitch, a record-setting signal-caller from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Three years later, neither is in the quarterback race. Uncertain of his prospects for playing
time with Shaw and Thompson around, McEvoy transferred to a junior college in Arizona shortly after the start of preseason camp in 2012. After a year playing safety for Wisconsin, McEvoy spent the offseason competing with Joel Stave, who faced Carolina in January’s Capital One Bowl in Orlando, to become the Badgers’ starting quarterback. Nosovitch struggled to adapt to the numerous demands of playing quarterback at the SEC level in his first two years in the program, and was shifted to tight end shortly after camp began. He briefly considered transferring until finally deciding to remain in Columbia for the 2014 season. Hence the 2011 and 2012 signing classes are a washout as far as the quarterback position is concerned, leaving the current backup battle behind Thompson to a pair of second-year players with limited in-game experience. “We do have a little gap in there because of Tanner transferring,” Mangus says. “He would have been the older guy. We have some numbers. They all have
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good work ethic. They’re working hard. They just have to get that grass time.” Michael Scarnecchia, this year’s addition to the quarterback group, is expected to redshirt. But he caught Spurrier’s eye early in camp with his strong, accurate arm and grasp of the offense. What happens when Thompson wraps up his career in just over four months, assuming the Gamecocks qualify for a bowl game? At that point, the stage would be set for the initial phase of a three-way battle for the starting job next March and April between Mitch, Orth and Scarnecchia that promises to be the dominant storyline throughout spring practice and continuing into the summer. Spurrier prefers not to utilize a quarterback-by-committee approach, but his coaching history suggests he is not averse to rotating a pair of signal callers if, in his opinion, both deserve to play. Four-star prospect Lorenzo
Nunez from Kennesaw, Georgia, one of the top dual-threat quarterbacks in the nation, has verbally committed to USC for the 2015 signing class. His presence promises an intriguing four-way fight (as long as Mitch, Orth and Scarnecchia are all still around) in the spring of 2016, unless somebody steps up and secures a stranglehold on the job 18 months from now. Good luck, though, convincing anybody associated with the football program, including Spurrier, to talk in detail about anything concerning the quarterback spot beyond the 2014 campaign. As coaches often remind us, the future will take care of itself. Focusing on the here and now, with the start of the 2014 season upon us, the Gamecock quarterback position is suitably summed up this way: Dylan Thompson and a big question mark.
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One of the biggest things that might be different this season is the actual in-game coaching. Shaw was a student of the game and he could come off and point things out to Mangus that maybe the coaching staff couldn’t see. Thompson is expected to do the same. But what happens when you’re on the road, in front of 80,000 hostile fans, and Mangus has to turn to an untested backup? That, Mangus concedes, might require a little extra coaching. “Every series and every game you try to get together to try and see how they’re defending you,” Mangus says. “Everybody defends you different depending on your scheme and all that. We ask the guys what they’re seeing and we share South Carolina quarterbacks coach G.A. Mangus, right, poses for a photo with former Gamecock quarterback Connor Shaw. photo by Paul Collins/Gamecock Central what we’re seeing as a coaching staff on the sideline. Each year, you hope you do a little to what it was, the additional working time seems like an eter- less talking. That’s the idea. The more you play the more you nity — but it’s a boon, for sure. “It does help the young guys, recognize. I expect if we have to go with one or more of the and I think that’s about where younger guys it might have to it ends,” Mangus says. “We still be different.” can’t do anything on the field. Mangus believes the prepa.A. Mangus had a bit “They all were put on a It’s all in the classroom and ration during the week sort of luxury a season ago. sense-of-urgency alert that [watching] film. Two hours a of offsets in-game coaching. The South Carolina they had to speed it up and week is all we get. With what If Thompson sputters or goes quarterbacks coach knew he get in the playbook over the we do in the weight room and down with injury, the offense was going to get a steady, solid summer,” Mangus says. “Early the academic schedule, we’re performance from Connor will almost certainly take on returns are good.” allowed one two-hour meeting Shaw no matter the opponent a new identity depending on Mangus has to coach up or maybe two one-hour meetor field condition. If something who enters the game: Mitch, for Connor Mitch, Perry Orth and ings. I think it’s been beneficial happened to Shaw, he felt cominstance, is a shotgun pocket Michael Scarnecchia to get on for the younger guys, because fortable ceding control of the passer who, like Shaw, can keep Thompson’s level. Only Orth one of them will be the backup Gamecocks offense to backup has thrown a pass at the colto Dylan [Thompson]. We may plays alive with his legs. Dylan Thompson. “It has a lot to do with how legiate level. Given their limneed all of them.” What a difference an you prepare and what you do the ited in-game experience, the Even with the additional off-season makes. Shaw has week of,” Mangus says. “If a guy additional instructional time coaching time, Mangus says graduated and Thompson recan’t handle the entire system the NCAA allowed coaches to all the quarterbacks came back turns for his senior season, but you have to back it down to what have this summer was critiabout the same as previous very little experience resides they do know. It’s what the kid cal. For years, coaches had to seasons. knows, not what we know. Deon the South Carolina sideline. turn players loose at the end “We meet after the spring pending on where they’re at with Now, Mangus uses phrases of spring practice until they with our guys and say, ‘Here’s their knowledge then you have like “sense of urgency” and reported to preseason camp. the plan and expectations for to coach accordingly.” “speed up the learning curve The hope is they followed the the summer,’” he says. “So the up” probably a little more than plan given to them and they’d guys coming back last August he cares to when talking about be ready to go when they rewere no different than the guys Carolina’s quarterbacks. turned to campus. Compared coming back this August.”
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“I’ll be fine,” says Thompson. “That’s what we’re here for. We came here to play, and that’s what we’re excited to do.” Thompson became a household name among Carolina fans in 2012, when a series of injuries to Shaw gave the Boiling Springs native plenty of chances to earn his stripes. Thompson struggled in his first game that season, a 17-13 victory at Vanderbilt. With Shaw battling an injury and watching from the sidelines, Thompson guided three drives, tossing three errant passes, getting sacked twice and failing to lead the Gamecocks to a first down. But, as has been his custom at Carolina, Thompson followed a poor outing with a strong performance, passing for 330 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions the next week in his first career start, a 48-10 blowout of East Carolina at Williams-Brice Stadium. A few more spot appearances and a sensational effort in his secQUARTERBACK ond career start, a 27-17 victory at archrival Clemson in 2012, further endeared him to Gamecocks fans. And when he passed for 117 yards and two touchdowns in the HOMETOWN: EXPERIENCE: HEIGHT / WEIGHT: 2013 Outback Bowl, including the Boiling Springs, S.C. 3 VL 6-3 / 218 game-winning 32-yarder to Bruce Ellington with 11 seconds remaining, Thompson’s future as Shaw’s successor was all but secured. Quarterback Dylan Thompson attempts a pass against North Carolina on Aug. 29, 2013. photo by Travis Bell/Sideline Carolina “He’s played meaningful snaps,” says Mangus. “A lot of New Year’s Day bowl game victory guys, you’re more concerned about it when it’s a guy that maybe all in each of the past three seasons. he did was mop up, and then he Carolina has also beaten archrival comes in and hasn’t really been Clemson five straight times and has climbed into the upper echelon in there when the game is on the line.” of the college football landscape. ylan Thompson is entering his first season as South CaroThompson appeared in eight ESPN ranks the Gamecocks ninth games as a junior last season, his lina’s starting quarterback, but he’s carried himself this in its preseason poll. “I do think we are a school with biggest performance coming in a preseason with the confidence of a wily veteran who’s 28-25 victory over the University advantages now,” says head coach been there and done that. of Central Florida, when he took Steve Spurrier. “We graduate our over for an injured Shaw in the players, they stay out of trouble, To an extent, he has. The leading one of the country’s first quarter. Thompson passed for we win and we send them to the fifth-year senior owns a 3-0 startTop 10 teams – seem more 261 yards against the Knights, his NFL. We have a track record of all ing record and has experienced manageable. infectious confidence helping to of that.” plenty of ups and downs with the “That’s a little more experispur the Gamecocks to victory. Now that Carolina is near the program, many of them coming ence than some of the guys Efforts like that one give Mantop of the college football food in relief of Connor Shaw over the through the years that maybe get gus little reason to worry about chain, much of the responsibility past two seasons. that opportunity,” says quarterfalls on Thompson, as the quarter- Thompson’s transition to life as the Those experiences, from backs coach G.A. Mangus. “He’s back, to make sure the Gamecocks full-time starter. tossing the game-winning touchplayed in big stadiums on the “It’s an easy transition when stay there. down in the 2013 Outback Bowl road and all of that, so I think Thompson, who often wears a you always treat yourself and to struggling on the road against Dylan has handled it and will handle yourself the way he handles big grin as well as a Thor underMissouri last season, have helped handle it in the future exceptionshirt at practice, warmly greets the himself,” Mangus says. “He’s prepare him for a starting role in ally.” always prepared himself to play, challenge. It’s one he’s waited for his fifth year with the program. The Gamecocks are on a always prepared himself like he’s since joining the Gamecocks as a They’ve also made the task heretofore unprecedented run the starter and just kind of waited two-star prospect in 2010. of replacing Shaw, the best quarof success, going 11-2 with a for his day to get named.” terback in school history — and
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Straight Outta Greenwood Marquavius Lewis the latest Greenwood prospect to join Gamecocks
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obert Brooks. Ernest Dye. Ricardo Hurley. D.J. Swearinger. Kelcy Quarles. Those names represent a few of the notable Greenwood High grads who went on to play college football at South Carolina. Along with former teammate Davon Durant, now a four-star linebacker at the junior college ranks, talented defensive end Marquavius Lewis is set to add his name to that list. Lewis was originally a member of the 2012 recruiting class out of high school, but he needed some junior-college seasoning — his grades weren’t great, and his gridiron skills, due to a recent transition from basketball to football, were raw. He didn’t draw much interest, let alone any offers, from big-time programs. Fast-forward a couple of years, and Lewis is ranked by Rivals as the top junior-college defensive end in the country. Given a four-star mark by Rivals, the Upstate native now stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 270 pounds and drew a litany of legitimate scholarship offers from all across the country. Alabama, Arizona State, Arkansas, Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Georgia, Miami, Tennessee and Southern California were among the numerous schools extending offers to Lewis once he began developing further under head coach Rion Rhodes at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. As a December graduate who will transfer and enroll at the Division I level in January, Lewis’ timeframe for making a
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MARQUAVIUS LEWIS Hometown: Greenwood, S.C. High School: Greenwood Height / Weight: 6-4 / 270 Class: Senior college decision was accelerated. NCAA rules permit junior-college prospects to make official visits during the summer, and Lewis took three of them. Arizona State and Miami received the first two, and the last went to South Carolina on the weekend that Lewis pledged to join the Gamecocks. A chance to return home and be close to family and friends and play SEC football factored heavily in the decision for Lewis. “It was just everything,” Lewis told gamecockcentral.com at the time of his commitment. “I just felt at home. It just felt right.” South Carolina defensive line coach Deke Adams has helped to put together one of the best defensive end classes in the country for the 2015 cycle, and Lewis is the centerpiece of that group. Lewis gave Adams a lot of credit for helping to lure him back home. “He did a good job of keeping it real and just being that role model, and throughout recruiting he’s been consistent,” he says. Lewis hopes to make an immediate impact in Columbia and is excited about the opportunity to represent his home state on a large scale. “I still have something to prove,” he says. “I want to put on for my state. My friends and family are going to be here. It’s going to be an amazing time.”
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Here Comes a New Challenger
New rival Texas A&M provides an early test to Carolina’s winning streaks
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OPINION BY JAMES HARLEY
ll eyes will be on the Gamecocks this week as they kick off the 2014 college football season against the No. 20 Texas A&M Aggies in what is expected to be one of the highlight games of the week. There are a number of trends that favor the Cocks in this ranked matchup, not the least of which is the nation’s current longest home winning streak of 18 games. Throw in the team’s current six-game winning streak and coach Spurrier’s undefeated (9-0) record in season-opening games at Carolina, not to mention the school’s 14 openinggame winning streak since the infamous 0-11 season in 1999, and there are many reasons to be optimistic. Of course, the down side to such winning streaks is that the longer they last, the more likely they are to end, especially when facing a solid opponent, as Carolina has in recent openers. Texas A&M is just such an opponent, and despite the pundits giving Carolina the nod, the Aggies are not to be taken lightly. Texas A&M draws its talent from one of the largest pools in the nation, the state of Texas, where top prospects naturally consider both A&M and the University of Texas as possible destinations. With the Longhorns at a relative low point (fewer than 10 wins is considered a bad year for the program) and with A&M recently joining the highly celebrated SEC, which funnels players to the NFL, the Aggies have boasted excellent recruiting classes over the past few years. While the loss of Heisman trophy quarterback Johnny Manziel will be significant to the team’s overall quality and production, there is plenty of size and speed left for the Aggies to compete on offense. Yet there are some obvious reasons to favor the Gamecocks. The Aggie defense gave up more than 30 points per game last season, and is returning eight starters who clearly couldn’t get the job done in the first place.
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The Aggie D was exposed regularly when playing upper-level teams, as the Aggies fell to every top-tier program on their schedule. (Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Missouri scored a combined 156 points in their wins over the Aggies.) Still, boldly favoring Carolina by 10.5 points, as the Vegas odds makers have done, fails to take into account the delicate nature of South Carolina’s success. Despite 11 wins last year, the Gamecocks, even under the leadership of their most successful quarterback in history, only defeated two SEC teams, bottom-dwelling Arkansas and Mississippi State, by more than 10 points. Several opponents who should have been blown out hung tight with the Gamecocks, including lowly Kentucky and struggling Florida, which Carolina topped by only seven and five points respectively. Then, of course, there was the embarrassing loss to Tennessee, which effectively kept USC out of the National Championship picture comes season’s end. So while playing to win and successfully finding a way to do so at a historic rate, the Gamecocks haven’t exactly been known for covering the spread in the process. Projecting them to open the season with a doubledigit win might be expecting a bit too much. On the bright side, if anything about this game truly favors Carolina, it is the declaration of Texas A&M as its permanent cross-division rival by the SEC. See, Texas A&M is essentially the Clemson of Texas — an agricultural college out in the boonies that bitterly hates the more classy school in the capital city. Given Carolina’s recent complete ownership of such rival institutions, A&M will likely need a true breakthrough game to pull off a win. Gamecocks 31, Aggies 24.
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GAMECOCK ROSTER NO. NAME
NO. NAME
POS. HGT. WGT. CL.
HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL/LAST COLLEGE
89 4 81 19 40 29 80 23 21 1 50 7 16 18 11 86 58 14 28 13 31 42 44 92 52 17 5 18 29 90 43 9 19 93 7 94 14 20 15 59 31 34 84 83 82 11 13 35 8 55 3 70 99 3 8 46 25 76 91 48 41 1 6 6 10 41 5 87 10 88 69 30 49 34 30 21 53 55 4 43
TE LB TE PK TE WR WR SPR WR WR OG TB K/P DE WR TE LS WR TB QB FB SPR DE DT DT FS DE P PK TE FB SPR WR DT CB DT CB SS QB LS CB DE WR WR WR LB P DB WR DE WR OC DT CB LB SPR FS OT DE TE FB CB QB SS LB LB QB WR QB TE OT FB TB K/P CB LB OT OT WR DB
Pinewood, S.C./Scott's Branch Ellenwood, Ga./Cedar Grove Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe Columbia, S.C./Cardinal Newman/Fork Union Military Columbia, S.C./Keenan/Hampton Waxhaw, N.C./Marvin Ridge Charlotte, NC./Vance Mt. Pleasant, S.C./Bishop England/Presbyterian Sicklerville, N.J./Timber Creek Bamberg, S.C./Bamberg-Ehrhardt Scranton, S.C./Lake City Charlotte, N.C./Myers Park/North Carolina A&T Lithonia, Ga./Lithonia Havelock, NC./Havelock Bamberg, S.C./Bamberg-Ehrhardt Laurens, S.C./Laurens Academy Gaffney, S.C./Gaffney Atlanta, Ga./Stephenson Columbia, S.C./Irmo Hamilton, N.J./Hamilton West Fort Myers, Fla./Island Coast Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe Rock Hill, S.C./Northwestern Manning, S.C./Manning Union City, Ga./Banneker Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern Shelby, N.C./Burns Frisco, Tx./Prince of Peace Christian Tallahassee, Fla./Lincoln Rock Hill, S.C./Northwestern Decatur, Ga./Southwest DeKalb Atlanta, Ga./Woodward Academy Windermere, Fla./Olympia Lithonia, Ga./Martin Luther King Buford, Ga./Mill Creek Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson Cairo, Ga./Cairo Collinsville, Ill./Collinsville Aiken, S.C./South Aiken Fort Lauderdale, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas Fort Oglethorpe, Ga./Ridgeland Rock Hill, S.C./Rock Hill Athens, Ga./Clarke Central/Gardner-Webb Cornelius, N.C./Hough Stone Mountain, Ga./St. Pius X Mount Airy, N.C./Mount Airy/Guilford College Florence, S.C./South Florence St. Matthews, S.C./Calhoun County Lithonia, Ga./Lithonia Moore, S.C./Byrnes Tyrone, Ga./Sandy Creek Fayetteville, N.C./Trinity Christian/Fort Scott C.C. Sunrise, Fla./Plantation Pleasantville, N.J./St. Joseph Camden, S.C./Camden/Coastal Carolina Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson Boynton Beach, Fla./Park Vista Jacksonville, Fla./Sandalwood Gainesville, Fla./Gainesville Raleigh, N.C./Garner Hampton, Ga./Lovejoy Raleigh, N.C./Wakefield McDonough, Ga./Henry County Cooper City, Fla./University Warner Robins, Ga./White Knoll/Gray Military Allentown, Pa./Central Catholic Orangeburg, S.C./Orangeburg Prep Ponte Vedra, Fla./Ponte Verda/Florida State College Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell Dillon, S.C./Dillon Columbia, S.C./Richland Northeast/North Greenville Granite Falls, N.C./South Caldwell Cockeysville, Md./St. Paul's Easley, S.C./Wren/Western Carolina Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern Havelock, N.C./Havelock Waldorf, Md./McDonough Lexington, S.C./Lexington Atlanta, Ga./Woodward Academy
Jerell Adams Bryson Allen-Williams Rory Anderson Landon Ard Jacob August Matrick Belton K.J. Brent Larenz Bryant Andrew Bunch Damiere Byrd A.J. Cann Shon Carson Zack Cimaglia Cedrick Cooper Pharoh Cooper Kevin Crosby Ryland Culbertson Shaq Davidson Mike Davis Grant Davitte Jordan Diaz Jordan Diggs Gerald Dixon Gerald Dixon, Jr. Phillip Dukes Chaz Elder Darius English Patrick Fish Elliott Fry Cody Gibson Garrison Gist Sharrod Golightly Terry Googer Deon Green Wesley Green Kelsey Griffin Ali Groves T.J. Gurley Austin Hails Coleman Harley Al Harris Jr. Mason Harris Matthew Harvey Carlton Heard Caleb Hines T.J. Holloman Tyler Hull Shannon James Shamier Jeffery David Johnson Nick Jones Alan Knott Abu Lamin Chris Lammons Kaiwan Lewis Cedrick Malone Kadetrix Marcus Mike Matulis Blake McClain Nick McGriff Connor McLaurin Rico McWilliams Connor Mitch Chris Moody Skai Moore Kyle Morini Brendan Nosovitch Sean Odom Perry Orth Drew Owens D.J. Park Darius Paulk Devin Potter Jonas Price Sidney Rhodes Marcquis Roberts Corey Robinson Na'Ty Rodgers Shaq Roland Benjamin Russell
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6-6 242 6-1 231 6-5 227 5-9 178 6-6 247 6-4 215 6-4 192 6-0 220 5-11 173 5-9 170 6-4 311 5-8 201 6-1 170 6-2 225 5-11 201 6-1 230 6-4 267 5-11 170 5-9 223 6-3 180 6-1 236 6-0 217 6-2 274 6-3 323 6-3 323 6-2 195 6-6 241 6-0 194 6-0 165 6-7 278 5-10 260 5-10 187 6-4 210 6-4 289 5-10 176 6-2 310 5-10 187 5-10 194 6-2 220 6-1 246 5-11 162 6-3 235 6-8 22 8 6-0 188 5-11 160 6-2 234 6-2 207 5-7 153 6-1 198 6-1 275 5-7 168 6-4 280 6-4 302 5-10 172 6-0 228 6-0 201 6-1 194 6-5 307 6-3 265 6-0 220 6-0 243 5-11 184 6-3 211 6-1 210 6-2 213 5-10 221 6-1 221 6-0 190 6-1 204 6-6 238 6-4 328 5-8 199 5-10 203 6-2 165 5-10 182 6-1 216 6-8 344 6-5 280 6-1 176 6-0 175
JR FR SR RS JR FR RS SO RS JR SO RS SO SR RS SR RS JR RS SO RS JR SO FR RS SR FR JR RS FR RS SR RS SO RS SO RS JR RS JR RS SO RS SO RS SR SO RS SR RS JR RS SR FR RS SO FR SO RS FR JR RS JR RS JR FR RS JR RS JR RS JR FR RS SO RS SR RS SO RS JR RS FR RS SR RS FR RS SO FR JR RS SO SR RS JR FR FR RS SR RS SO RS FR RS SO SO RS SR RS SO SO RS SO RS JR RS FR RS SO RS SO RS FR RS SR RS SO RS SR RS FR JR RS FR
NO. NAME
9 26 12 49 71 39 24 22 75 65 54 90 72 45 97 32 17 44 51 28 51 95 85 22 12 33 47 77 74
POS. HGT. WGT. CL.
Deebo Samuel Jasper Sasser Michael Scarnecchia Garrett Shank Brandon Shell Demetrius Smalls D.J. Smith Jamari Smith Will Sport Brock Stadnik Clayton Stadnik Taylor Stallworth Donell Stanley Brandon Sturdivant J.T. Surratt Rod Talley Dylan Thompson Gerald Turner Cody Waldrop Jonathan Walton Devin Washington Michael Washington Kane Whitehurst Brandon Wilds Brison Williams David Williams Drew Williams Malik Young Mason Zandi
WR FS QB SS OT DB DB CB OG OG OC DT OL FB DT TB QB FB OC LB DE DE WR TB SS TB LS OL OT
6-0 192 6-0 203 6-4 189 6-0 203 6-6 333 5-11 170 5-11 189 5-10 197 6-5 291 6-5 287 6-3 273 6-2 293 6-4 346 6-2 218 6-2 310 5-10 201 6-3 218 6-2 250 6-2 309 6-0 228 6-3 221 6-3 237 5-11 169 6-2 222 5-11 208 6-1 214 6-2 201 6-3 318 6-9 301
FR RS FR FR RS SO RS JR RS FR FR SO RS JR RS SO RS SO FR FR RS SO RS SR RS SO RS SR RS FR RS SO SO RS FR RS JR RS JR RS JR SR RS FR SO FR RS SO
POS. HGT. WGT. CL.
HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL/LAST COLLEGE
HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL/LAST COLLEGE
Inman, S.C./Chapman Jacksonville, Fla./Wolfson Fleming Island, Fla./Fleming Island Marietta, Ga./Lassiter Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek Bluffton, S.C./Bluffton Marietta, Ga./Walton Jacksonville, Fla./Fletcher Milton, Fla./Pace Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford Mobile, Ala./Murphy Floydale, S.C./Latta Fort Mill, S.C./Nation Ford/York Tech Winston-Salem, N.C./Parkland Laurens, S.C./Laurens/Gardner-Webb Boiling Springs, S.C./Boiling Springs Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek Seffner, Fla./Armwood Daphne, Ala./Bayside Academy Orlando, Fla./Jones Allendale, S.C./Allendale-Fairfax/S.C. State Duluth, Ga./Chattahoochee/Arkansas Blythewood, S.C./Blythewood Warner Robins, Ga./Northside/Fork Union Military Philadelphia, Pa./Imhotep Charter Irmo, S.C/Dutch Fork Pelzer, S.C./Woodmont Irmo, S.C./Chapin
DEPTH OFFENSE WR 4 Shaq Roland 1 Damiere Byrd WR 11 Pharoh Cooper 1 Damiere Byrd WR 3 Nick Jones 83 Carlton Heard LT 53 Corey Robinson 74 Mason Zandi LG 50 A.J. Cann 65 Brock Stadnik C 51 Cody Waldrop 54 Clayton Stadnik RG 76 Mike Matulis 75 Will Sport RT 71 Brandon Shell 55 Na’Ty Rodgers TE 81 Rory Anderson 89 Jerell Adams QB 17 Dylan Thompson 6 Connor Mitch FB 41 Connor McLaurin 31 Jordan Diaz TB 28 Mike Davis 22 Brandon Wilds
DEFENSE
6-1 176 JR-2L 5-9 170 SR-3L
Lexington, S.C. Sicklerville, N.J.
5-11 201 SO-1L 5-9 170 SR-3L
Havelock, N.C. Sicklerville, N.J
5-7 168 SR-3L 6-0 188 JR-SQ
Moore, S.C. Athens, Ga.
6-8 344 SR-2L 6-9 301 SO-1L
Havelock, N.C. Irmo, S.C.
6-4 311 SR-3L 6-5 287 SO-1L
Bamberg, S.C. Greensboro, N.C
6-2 309 SO-1L 6-3 273 SO-1L
Seffner, Fla. Greensboro, N.C
6-5 307 JR-2L Boynton Beach, Fla. 6-5 291 JR-2L Milton, Fla. 6-6 333 JR-2L 6-5 280 FR-RS
Goose Creek, S.C. Waldorf, Md.TE
6-5 227 SR-3L Powder Springs, Ga. 6-6 242 JR-2L Pinewood, S.C. 6-3 218 SR-3L Boiling Springs, S.C. 6-3 211 FR-RS Raleigh, N.C. 6-0 243 SR-2L 6-1 236 SR-1L
Raleigh, N.C. Hamilton, N.J.
5-9 223 JR-2L 6-2 222 JR-2L
Atlanta, Ga. Blythewood, S.C.
DE 44 Gerald Dixon 34 Mason Harris DT 97 J.T. Surratt 52 Phillip Dukes DT 92 Gerald Dixon Jr. 99 Abu Lamin DE 5 Darius English 55 David Johnson MLB 8 Kaiwan Lewis 11 T.J. Holloman WLB 10 Skai Moore 28 Jonathan Walton SPR 9 Sharrod Golightly 42 Jordan Diggs CB 30 Sidney Rhodes 23 Jamari Smith SS 12 Brison Williams 25 Kadetrix Marcus FS 17 Chaz Elder 20 T.J. Gurley CB 1 Rico McWilliams 14 Ali Groves
6-2 274 SO-1L Rock Hill, S.C. 6-3 235 JR-2L Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 6-2 310 SR-2L Winston-Salem, N.C. 6-3 323 JR-1L Manning, S.C. 6-3 323 JR-2L 6-4 302 SO-TR
Rock Hill, S.C. Fayetteville, N.C.
6-6 241 SO-1L Powder Springs, Ga. 6-1 275 FR-RS Lithonia, Ga. 6-0 228 JR-2L Mays Landing, N.J. 6-2 234 SO-1L Stone Mountain, Ga. 6-2 213 SO-1L 6-0 228 SO-1L
Cooper City, Fla. Daphne, Ala.
5-10 187 SR-3L 6-0 217 SO-1L
Decatur, Ga. Fort Myers, Fla
5-10 182 SR-2L 5-10 197 SO-1L
Easley, S.C. Jacksonville, Fla.
5-11 208 SR-3L Warner Robins, Ga. 6-1 194 SR-2L Stone Mountain, Ga. 6-2 195 SO-1L 5-10 194 JR-2L
Union City, Ga. Cairo, Ga.
5-11 184 SO-1L Hampton, Ga. 5-10 187 FR-RS Stone Mountain, Ga.
SPECIALIST KO 19 Landon Ard 29 Elliott Fry PK 29 Elliott Fry 19 Landon Ard P 13 Tyler Hull 18 Patrick Fish
5-9 178 JR-1L 6-0 165 SO-1L
Rock Hill, S.C. Frisco, Texas
6-0 165 SO-1L 5-9 178 JR-1L
Frisco, Texas Rock Hill, S.C.
6-2 207 SR-2L 6-0 194 SR-1L
Mount Airy, N.C. Shelby, N.C.
KR 11 Pharoh Cooper PR 11 Pharoh Cooper SSN 58 Ryland Culbertson LSN 47 Drew Williams H 18 Patrick Fish 13 Tyler Hull
5-11 201
SO-1L
Havelock, N.C.
5-11 201
SO-1L
Havelock, N.C.
6-4 267 SR-1L
Laurens, S.C.
6-2 201
SO-1L
Irmo, S.C.
6-0 194 SR-1L 6-2 207 SR-2L
Shelby, N.C. Mount Airy, N.C.
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