Former Gamecocks Pharoh Cooper and Johnathan Joseph provided plenty of fireworks in NFL play this past weekend, but it was D.J. Swearinger who had the most people talking.
While Cooper returned a kickoff 103 yards for a touchdown for the Los Angeles Rams and Joseph returned an intercepted pass for a score for the Houston Texans, Swearinger inadvertently stumbled into the NFL’s controversial and charged conversation regarding racism, protests and activism.
Swearinger was on the field when one of his fellow Washington Redskins, Kendall Fuller, intercepted a pass from the San Francisco 49ers to secure the win.