For two seasons, Mon Denson was a player not in the mix for South Carolina’s football team.
The running back from LaGrange, Ga., redshirted his first year on campus and didn’t see the field his second. Coaches gave him praise at times, the sort that goes to a No. 4 running back who got focused and improved, but he still opened the season at No. 4, behind a player the Gamecocks recruited him over, Ty’Son Williams.
But against Tennessee, starter Rico Dowdle broke a bone in his leg, knocking him out for the rest of the regular season.