The snag for Keisean Nixon was catching up.
The defensive back from Compton, California, joined the South Carolina football team well after August camp started. As a result, he was behind. For that reason, he didn’t play a defensive snap in the competitive portion of a game through the entire 2017 season.
And then he started Monday’s Outback Bowl against Michigan.
“It was big,” linebacker T.J. Brunson said. “Have somebody to come in and be able to do the same thing as whoever was in before him. It’s really big, and I’m looking forward to seeing him make more plays.