It seems like everyone who is not playing football is talking about CTE, but for the people in the locker room it comes up a lot less often.
“We live in the moment,” South Carolina linebacker Bryson Allen-Williams said. “Those things happen. You just have to be prepared for anything that happens. It’s not really something that comes up.”
That doesn’t mean they’re not doing anything about it. Allen-Williams is one of two Gamecocks who will be wearing a custom-padded, prototype helmet from Riddell this year.
“It was the kind of thing where they said, ‘Do you want to try this?