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USC football Spring Camp: Five things we learned from Week 2

USC football is well and truly in the swing of Spring Camp now having completed Week 2 with a situational scrimmage, of sorts, on Saturday.

What did we learn from the fourth, fifth and sixth days of action on Howard Jones Field?

Here’s a look at the big takeaways from Week 2 of USC Spring Camp:

Bigger, slimmer, faster defensive front

In Week 1 of Spring Camp, the Trojans revealed a desire to field a bigger defensive front. To achieve that, they set Christian Rector into a more traditional defensive end role, along with converted outside linebacker Connor Murphy and early enrollees Drake Jackson and Nick Figueroa.