South Carolina football defensive lineman Jabari Ellis talks about the progress he's made after a redshirt season, what coach Will Muschamp told him to get him through that season and what the 2019 spring practices have been like. By
Jabari Ellis isn’t the sort of football player one expects to take a redshirt year at a four-year school.
He came to South Carolina from a junior college. Most JUCO players are brought in for immediate help at some position. Midway through the 2018 season, that’s not what he was doing.
He saw the field in USC’s first two games against Coastal Carolina and Georgia and didn’t step on the field the next nine contests.