Bryan McClendon had been at South Carolina more than a year and a half by the time wide receiver Tyquan Johnson committed to USC.

But the former Georgia Bulldog had been after him much longer than that.

Johnson’s coach at Screven County, Ron Duncan, said the wide receiver had caught the coach’s eye all the way back when he was a freshman. Johnson was at a camp at Georgia, already a precocious talent.

And the bond has carried through.

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