South Carolina Gamecocks football coach Will Muschamp talks about the coming NFL draft, Deebo Samuel and what it could mean for USC. By
The 2011 South Carolina football team that started the Gamecocks’ streak of three consecutive 11-win seasons had 15 NFL Draft picks on the roster. Will Muschamp’s first three teams as South Carolina’s head coach have had four.
“Moving forward, those numbers will change,” Muschamp said.
They will have to if the Gamecocks are going to get back to double digit win totals. South Carolina had 33 players drafted from 2009-2016, the most of any eight-year stretch in school history, but they’ve only had one drafted in the last two cycles, tight end Hayden Hurst, a first-round selection last year.