Deebo Samuel may have played his last game with South Carolina, choosing to skip the Gamecocks’ Belk Bowl matchup with Virginia so he can prepare for the NFL Draft and preserve his health. But his former teammates aren’t mad at him.
Not in the slightest.
“Selfishly I wanted him to play, but I understand completely,” junior quarterback Jake Bentley said. “After the Akron game, (I) walked into the weight room, and it’s 30 people with Deebo’s cousin, nephew. It’s just a really awesome thing to see how many people support him. And when he told me what was going to happen and what he thought the best thing for his family was, when you see that and the amount of people that support him and how he can change his whole family’s life with his career, you can’t really fault him.