Hayden Hurst played the good soldier this week.
He appeared completely believable and sincere when he said this about catching only one pass (for minus-2 yards) in South Carolina’s first game of the season: “I know I didn’t have the flashiest game as far as stats or anything like that but that’s just the type of player I am, whatever I am asked to do, I am going to do it as hard as I can.”
The Gamecocks’ junior tight end was named one of the team’s offensive players of the game for his efforts in run blocking and pass protection, and that contribution means as much to him, he said, as catches and touchdown passes.