South Carolina’s 2017 football team got worse when Bryson Allen-Williams left the field for the season with a shoulder injury in the third game. Allen-Williams himself might have gotten better.

“I could go on for days and days about what I learned,” the Gamecocks senior linebacker said.

Relegated to watching, he decided to watch as much and as well as he could.

“It was a big learning experience for me,” he said. “I don’t think I’ve ever watched that much film. I actually studied the game.”

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