COLUMBIA — The first thing you notice is the hair, cascading in long braids out the back of Jamarcus King’s helmet. The second thing you notice is, that hair seems to often be in the vicinity of the ball.
“You’ve got to have a ball-hawk mentality,” said King, a junior cornerback at South Carolina. “T-Rob talks about it all the time. Second man in, get the ball.”
For defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson and the Gamecocks, King has proven exactly what they needed. Skai Moore’s season-ending neck injury cost USC not only its leading tackler, but its best player at generating turnovers.