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A 5-time state champ on what makes Jamyest Williams special, what role he could fit

T.L. Hanna High School football coach Jeff Herron occupies a rather unusual position.

This season he is coaching Zacch Pickens, the crown jewel of South Carolina’s football recruiting class. That’s a title someone has every year, but Herron also did that two years ago, at another school, in another state.

Herron, now in his second year with the Yellow Jackets, spent only one season at Grayson High School near Atlanta. That coincided with the only year Jamyest Williams, a former four-start recruit and second-year Gamecock, played at the school. Those Rams went 14-1 and claimed a state title.