South Carolina football coach Will Muschamp had to play so many freshmen in 2018, he had trouble remembering one of the most important ones as he listed them off.
The new redshirt rule factored in, as did a slew of injuries on the defense, but he played enough that slipping his mind was Jaycee Horn, a opening-day starter who had a case as the team’s best overall defender. So what does he take from Year 1 with a class that saw 15 scholarship true freshmen play, including six or seven in rotations by year’s end?