The first thing people involved in the South Carolina football program said about Ernest Jones centered around something those outside the program couldn’t see.
To a degree, that makes sense with a player who missed the spring with a back injury and spent most of his first year on campus on track to redshirt. But it might also speak to something coming down the line.
“He’s smart,” starting middle linebacker T.J. Brunson said. “That was the first thing I noticed. He’ll call something and see something. Sometimes he’ll beat the running back or whoever the ball carrier is to the spot.