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How South Carolina turned over the RB position in one season

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The 2016 South Carolina football team hit a point where it seemed only one running back ever played.

David Williams was in the dog house, and the heavy load of rushing, receiving and pass blocking was laid on the smaller shoulders of 180-pound redshirt freshman A.J. Turner. Oh, how things have changed.

“We have completely flipped our running back room to where we were in here a year ago,” South Carolina running backs coach Bobby Bentley said earlier this offseason. “We had one guy (Williams) that had carried the ball, and he had a couple hundred yards.