Rick Sandidge opened this football season as South Carolina’s No. 5 defensive tackle.
He was set to play behind three veterans and a fellow freshman in Kingsley Enagbare, who had enrolled in the spring. Sandidge enrolled in the summer, and had to spend fall camp speeding through the learning curve of college football.
So how has he looked to coaches through the first half of his freshman year.
“He’s playing really well,” Gamecocks coach Will Muschamp said on his weekly call-in show. “You look at the last ball game; he came in and, really, he’s making strides every single day.