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Freshman tight end Connor Redmond no longer is a member of the football team, The State newspaper reported Tuesday.
Redmond, a three-star member of the team’s 2015 class, did not play this season due to a back injury. He rated as the nation’s 37th-best tight end out of Lawrenceville, Ga., last spring according to the 247Sports Composite ranking.
Senior tight end Jerell Adams is headed to the NFL after the season, and South Carolina is getting thin at the position. Currently the Gamecocks would enter spring practice with just four tight ends, and coach Will Muschamp’s staff does not have a player committed at the position in the current 2016 class.
According to The State, offensive linemen Brock Stadnik and Cody Waldrop as well as defensive lineman Devin Washington are among other players recently “forced into medical disqualifications due to injury.”
Redmond is expected to take a “medical hardship,” so he’ll most likely remain on scholarship at South Carolina while not counting against the football team’s scholarship limit.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
