Urban Meyer rarely went a week last season without either praising Parris Campbell, Terry McLaurin or Johnnie Dixon, or complimenting the trio as a whole.
All three senior wideouts served as team captains, with Campbell and McLaurin earning the distinction for the second year in a row, and each of them started and took significant on-field strides in their final years. But they’re gone now.
For a while, K.J. Hill thought he’d be leaving too. Though he didn’t say so publicly, as he prepared for the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, he thought his collegiate career had just one more game, planning to head to the NFL after his redshirt junior season.