South Carolina football coach Will Muschamp has a well-documented disdain for recruiting rankings.
The evaluation metrics and charts of 247, Rivals or ESPN hold no interest for him. He thinks he’s a better evaluator than any of them. But the third-year Gamecocks head man does believe in some metrics, especially for projecting ahead, and that’s how his staff came to be so enamored with Xavier Legette.
“He had NFL combine numbers when he came to our camp,” Muschamp said. “Off the charts. As good as anybody at the combine.