A season ago, the South Carolina football team was patching up its offense line seemingly each week in the first half of the year. It seemed as if things might be different in 2017.
They are not.
South Carolina could not make it a full 60 minutes of football with a new starting lineup before another stalwart went down. Guard Cory Helms suffered an ankle injury, sending raw, high-potential former tackle Sadarius Hutcherson into the lineup.
That’s after right tackle Zack Bailey, the top player on the unit, went down against Kentucky and was replaced by Malik Young, who had lost his starting left tackle job to Dennis Daley.