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From two-star recruit to Pro Bowl, Patrick DiMarco’s football journey is not over

Thirty-one players signed with South Carolina in its ballyhooed 2007 recruiting class in February of that year. In February of this year, two remain in the NFL.

Only one person, and maybe not even one, would have guessed then that one of those two pro veterans would be Patrick DiMarco.

“I would put all the money I have made that zero of them would have said that,” DiMarco told The State.

DiMarco was a two-star tight end prospect out of Altamonte Springs, Florida, when he signed with the Gamecocks. Now, he is halfway through a four-year, $8.