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 Draft Scout College Football Player News: South Carolina
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  09/01/22 - *Cam Smith, Jr/2023, South Carolina, 6-1, 180 (DS#8 CB) + More +

  2022 COACHES PRESEASON ALL-SEC FIRST TEAM: DB - Cam Smith, South Carolina,...The 6-0, 188-pounder from Blythewood, S.C., earned second-team All-SEC honors from the Associated Press a year ago after leading the team with 14 passes defended, including three interceptions and 11 pass breakups. He allowed multiple catches in just two of 11 games played and only 15 catches on 32 targets throughout the season. He has been listed on multiple pre-season All-SEC and All-America teams and numerous watch lists this summer, including A.P. second-team All-America, the Jim Thorpe Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy and Chuck Bednarik watch lists. - South Carolina Football

(DS#8 CB) Jr/2023 CB *Cam Smith, South Carolina
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  09/01/22 - *Cam Smith, Jr/2023, South Carolina, 6-1, 180 (DS#8 CB) + More +

  ESPN TOP 100 PRESEASON 2022 CFB PLAYERS (Selected Aug. 17): No. 59. Cam Smith, CB, South Carolina, Junior. Notable 2021 stats: 41 tackles (31 solo), 3 INT. Last year's ranking: NR. He has emerged as a shutdown cornerback for South Carolina and a fascinating prospect for the 2023 NFL draft. Mel Kiper Jr. ranks Smith as the No. 2 draft-eligible cornerback and No. 20 overall prospect. Smith earned second-team All-SEC honors last season, when he started seven games and allowed multiple catches just twice in 11 contests. - ESPN.com

(DS#8 CB) Jr/2023 CB *Cam Smith, South Carolina
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  ESPN TOP 100 PRESEASON 2022 CFB PLAYERS (Selected Aug. 17): No. 78. Spencer Rattler, QB, South Carolina, Junior. Notable 2021 stats: 1,493 yards, 11 TD in 9 games. Last year's ranking: 1. He may have gone from Heisman favorite to second-stringer at Oklahoma last year, but his numbers are still top-notch: a 70% career completion rate, 4,595 career passing yards and 40 touchdowns to only 12 interceptions. His ceiling remains immense as he enters the second act of his college football career. - ESPN.com

(DS#7 QB) rSr/2024 QB Spencer Rattler, South Carolina
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  Cleveland Browns defensive end Jadeveon Clowney will have his college jersey retired at South Carolina's season opener with Georgia State on Sept. 3. The school announced the retirement of Clowney's No. 7 on Friday. "We are excited to honor one of our greatest Gamecock football players ever," South Carolina athletic director Ray Tanner said. Clowney, from Rock Hill, was the country's top recruit when he signed on with the Gamecocks and coach Steve Spurrier in 2011. Clowney lived up to his billing. He was twice named an AP All-American, won the Ted Hendricks Award as the nation's top defensive end in 2012 and helped the Gamecocks go 11-2 each of his three seasons. - AP College Football

(DS#1 DE) Jr/2014 DE *Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina
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  2022 PRESEASON ALLSTATE AFCA GOOD WORKS TEAM NOMINEE: Dakereon Joyner, University of South Carolina,...Joyner, a 6-1, 215-pound redshirt senior from North Charleston, S.C., is a versatile, all-purpose performer who excels with the ball in his hands. He caught a career-high 24 passes for 221 yards a year ago, and is coming off an MVP performance in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl as a quarterback, where he completed all nine of his pass attempts for 160 yards and a touchdown and ran 10 times for 64 yards. - South Carolina Football

(DS#75 RB) rSr/2024 RB Dakereon Joyner, South Carolina
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  South Carolina's home opener against Georgia State doesn't just serve as the team's season debut. It's a bit of a reunion for one Gamecock. Jordan Strachan played his first season with USC last year, transferring in from Georgia State. He learned about the scheduled matchup against his former team midway through the 2021 season - at that point, however, he was leaning toward leaving the Gamecocks and trying his hand at pro football. Strachan (pronounced STRAHN) had one more year of eligibility and kept the game against Georgia State in mind when deciding to exercise his option for another year in college. "That played a part in it, for sure," Strachan said. "I just feel like I'm supposed to be a part of that game." While playing for the Panthers, Strachan led the FBS in sacks during his junior year with 10.5. The edge that he and his former teammates played with, he said, was fueled by Georgia State not having the same resources of a Power Five college like USC.

As an SEC school, South Carolina has advantages with facilities, recruiting and other factors to keep the program competitive. "All of us were hungry," Strachan said. "We're not the five-stars, the four-stars. So I just brought that over, that type of attitude." That mentality is evident to his current team, specifically Defensive coordinator Clayton White. White commended Strachan for returning as a "super senior" and getting the chance to enhance his game. Now, with a year of SEC football under his belt, Strachan still carries that competitive mindset with him. "He made a name for himself in that Group of Five level, but I think there's a competitive nature in him that wants to show that, 'I can do it at this level as well," White said. - Rock Hill Herald

(DS#41 DE) rSr/2024 DE Jordan Strachan, South Carolina
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  08/15/22 - Joshua Simon, rSr/2025, South Carolina, 6-4, 239 (DS#12 TE) + More +

  Joshua Simon has impressed in the two weeks that WKU's been practicing, even though he's still finishing his recovery, "Josh, man, he's looked great. It's almost like how I remembered him. I know we only had him for fall camp and the first game last year, but it's like how I remembered him," WKU co-offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle said. "He's tough, he's strong, he's athletic. Big, big body. He's not afraid to stick his face in the fan in the run game. It's been just unreal seeing him come back from that injury and almost not skipping a beat. Josh has been phenomenal." Even though he was unable to actually be between the lines for much of last year, Simon believes his game has grown. Watching his team from off the field allowed him to see things from a new perspectives.

"I believe everything happens for a reason. The plan is already written for us. If it's supposed to happen, then it's going to happen," Simon said. "It was eye-opening just sitting back on the sideline. It was my first time in a long time actually watching a football game from the sideline because I was playing for a long time. "To actually watch it from a spectator's point of view, it kind of helped me a little bit just to see it's not as complicated as you may make it seem in your brain. It's a whole lot more simple. You can see the space a whole lot better on the field when you're not on it. You get to look down on it and actually see the schemes and how stuff's supposed to work. I feel like it kind of helped me." - BG Daily News

(DS#12 TE) rSr/2025 TE Joshua Simon, South Carolina
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  08/12/22 - Darius Rush, rSr/2023, South Carolina, 6-2, 198 (DS#12 CB) + More +

  South Carolina's Darius Rush rerouted his football focus from wide receiver to cornerback. That move has the redshirt senior poised for a breakout year. Rush - originally from Kingstree - was recruited as a wide receiver out of C.E. Murray High School, which competed as both a receiver and defensive back. He spent most of his time on special teams during his first two years at South Carolina, but his role on the team received a jolt when the Gamecocks moved him to cornerback going into the 2019 season.

Cam Smith, the team's leading corner, suffered a foot injury before camp last summer and then Smith suffered a separate injury that caused him to miss a game against Tennessee. In those moments, the door opened for Rush to step up and he became a star. He leveraged skills as a wide receiver and in the second game last season grabbed his first career interception against East Carolina. He finished the season with eight pass deflections. Rush has good size at 6-2, 200. He is working his way up the Draft Scout board and this will be a big season for him so put him on your watch list. - Rock Hill Herald/Frank Cooney

(DS#12 CB) rSr/2023 CB Darius Rush, South Carolina
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  08/12/22 - Ahmarean Brown, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 5-08, 170 (DS#71 WR) + More +

  The thing about being compared to Calvin Johnson is that the name "Calvin Johnson" is all anybody remembers. South Carolina didn't land intriguing receiver Ahmarean Brown out of the transfer portal. The Gamecocks landed Ahmarean Brown, the guy "who tied Calvin Johnson's freshman career receiving touchdown record!" USC didn't get a wideout from Georgia Tech who could fit very well into its offense, it got a guy "who's in Tech's record books alongside Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Calvin Johnson!" OK, reality check time. Ahmarean Brown, 5-9, 167, isn't Calvin Johnson, who played at about 6-5, 240 (with a 45-inch vertical and a 40 time of 4.38 seconds). To be clear, the Johnson record he tied was most receiving touchdowns by a freshman at Tech with seven. "After I caught that last touchdown, I got to the sideline and I kind of cried a little bit. It was a very emotional moment," Brown said. "That gave me a lot of confidence in myself that I really didn't have at that moment. "Now I hold myself much higher than I used to. I expect a lot more out of myself." That's all nice, but unless he has a remarkable growth spurt, any comparisons to Megatron should stop now. - The Post and Courier/Frank Cooney

(DS#71 WR) rSr/2024 WR Ahmarean Brown, South Carolina
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  08/11/22 - Trey Knox, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 6-3, 234 (DS#16 TE) + More +

  Tight ends coach Dowell Loggains, a former NFL offensive coordinator, said Trey Knox's move to tight end enhances his opportunity to play professionally. "Trey, who is a good special teams player, understands the value now of why that's important, why it's important for when scouts show up," Loggains said. 'They see him doing these drills, because they're going to want to know [if he can play on special teams]. "It's a 53-man roster, not 85 scholarship plus, oh, 110. It's 53 plus 10 on the practice squad, so now your special teams value is more important than it's ever been. And if you can play tight end at his size and move like he does and show special teams value, it obviously increases your NFL value." - Northwest Arkansas Times

(DS#16 TE) rSr/2024 TE Trey Knox, South Carolina
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  08/10/22 - Trey Knox, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 6-3, 234 (DS#16 TE) + More +

  Tre Knox, who as a freshman in 2019 had 28 receptions for 385 yards, understood he could help himself and the team by playing tight end, where the Razorbacks lacked depth. That doesn't mean the move was easy. "Last year was definitely hard," Knox said. "Not being able to learn the little nuances of playing the position, of course, because you don't have enough time to sit and really be coached on details when you're getting ready for an opponent." Knox said by going through spring practice and summer workouts he's learned more about how to block defensive ends and improved his footwork and hand placement so he can strike more effectively. "Just all the little details that make you so much better than just playing with raw strength and playing off of athleticism," he said.

Adjustments aside, the move worked out well for Knox as he became a reliable receiver for quarterback KJ Jefferson, especially in two-minute drill situations, and had 20 catches for 141 yards. "Trey comes in with a different skill set at the tight end position," Jefferson said. "I don't call him a tight end necessarily. I call him a flex-tight end because we can still put Trey out there at wide receiver and just let him play. That's his background." Jefferson said Knox creates mismatch problems for linebackers trying to cover him. "Relying on Trey, it's truly just confidence," Jefferson said. "I know he's going to be in the right spot at the right time. I know he's going to run his route. "We're able to have chemistry in those crunch situations." - Northwest Arkansas Times

(DS#16 TE) rSr/2024 TE Trey Knox, South Carolina
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  08/09/22 - Nick Gargiulo, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 6-5, 318 (DS#23 C) + More +

  2022 PRESEASON PHIL STEELE/DRAFT SCOUT IVY LEAGUE SECOND TEAM: Nick Gargiulo, Yale, Sr.,...Wide receiver Mason Tipton, offensive lineman Nick Gargiulo, defensive lineman Reid Nickerson and defensive back Miles Oldacre earned second team recognition. The Bulldogs kick off the 2022 season at Holy Cross on Sept. 17. The home opener at Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field is Oct. 1 vs. Howard at noon. - Yale Football

(DS#23 C) rSr/2024 C Nick Gargiulo, South Carolina
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  Arkansas running back Raheim Sanders has officially been listed as the Razorbacks' No.1 running back, Pig Trail Nation reported Wednesday. After a dominant spring, the team's coach Sam Pittman has declared Sanders as the top running back on the Arkansas roster. He was third on the team last year in rushing yards, but with Trelon Smith's departure from the team and Dominique Johnson still recovering from an undisclosed injury, Sanders was able to claim the RB1 spot. - Pig Trail Nation

(DS#21 RB) rJr/2025 RB Raheim Sanders, South Carolina
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  08/03/22 - Devonni Reed, rSr/2023, South Carolina, 5-10, 199 (DS#52 SS) + More +

  Jaylan Foster left big shoes to fill in his final year playing at South Carolina. The walk-on turned second-team Walter Camp All-American had the best season of his career in 2021, tying for fourth in the country after snagging five interceptions. Upon graduation, Foster left a big hole on and off the field. Defensive coordinator Clayton White and defensive backs coach Torrian Gray think they might have found his replacement - Central Michigan transfer Devonni Reed. "I spent the whole month of January basically trying to find a guy who I thought was the closest to (Foster) and can come in and get with us...We found Devonni Reed," White said.

Reed played four years at Central Michigan and transferred to South Carolina in January. He was a four-year starter with the Chippewas, with 287 career tackles and three interceptions. The graduate transfer was also named to several All-Mid-American Conference teams the last two seasons. White made the comparison of Foster and Reed after Shane Beamer's media golf outing on Thursday, saying that "no one's the same person, but he's the closest thing that we can find." - Rock Hill Herald

(DS#52 SS) rSr/2023 SS Devonni Reed, South Carolina
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  2022 PRESEASON WALTER CAMP PLAYER OF YEAR PLAYER TO WATCH: Spencer Rattler, QB, junior, South Carolina,...Rattler, a 6-1, 215-pound transfer quarterback from Phoenix, Ariz., enrolled at Carolina prior to the spring semester following three seasons at Oklahoma where he played in 23 games and posted a 15-2 record as a starter. The Arizona product completed 70.1 percent of his passes (361-for-515) for 4,595 yards with 40 touchdowns to his credit. Rattler also threw at least one touchdown pass in 16 of his 17 collegiate starts with the Sooners. There are 44 offensive players (22 quarterbacks, 12 running backs and 10 receivers/tight ends) on the preseason watch list along with eight from the defensive side of the ball. - South Carolina Football

(DS#7 QB) rSr/2024 QB Spencer Rattler, South Carolina
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