When the 2017 USC Football team was tasked with voting for their team captains, they were instructed to pick two representatives on offense and two on defense.
Normally, the vote goes forward as expected, but this year something different happened. Three of the four biggest vote getters came from the defensive side of the ball, with Uchenna Nwosu, Cameron Smith and Chris Hawkins joining Sam Darnold.
“It was so amazing the votes that came in for those men,” Helton said. “It was so much larger than everybody else and it just speaks volumes for what they’ve done in the offseason and what they’ve done on this football team for multiple years.