5 Gamecocks named to All-SEC team

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Posted 12/31/20

The University of South Carolina football team had 5 players selected All-SEC by the league’s 14 head coaches, the Southeastern Conference announced Dec. 22

Junior defensive lineman Kingsley …

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5 Gamecocks named to All-SEC team

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The University of South Carolina football team had 5 players selected All-SEC by the league’s 14 head coaches, the Southeastern Conference announced Dec. 22

Junior defensive lineman Kingsley Enagbare was named to the 1st team, while sophomore running back Kevin Harris and junior cornerback Jaycee Horn were 2nd team selections. Linebacker Mohamed Kaba and punter Kai Kroeger were named to the coaches’ all-freshman team.

Enagbare, a 6-4 junior from Atlanta Ga., played and started 8 games for the Gamecocks in 2020 and led the SEC with 3 forced fumbles and was 2nd in the league with 6 sacks.

Harris, a 5-10 sophomore from Hinesville, Ga., played and started in all 10 games and led the SEC in the regular season and was 7th nationally with 1,138 rushing yards. He had 15 rushing touchdowns and 16 total touchdowns, which is 3rd in the SEC. Harris had 5 100-yard plus performance and a pair of 200-yard plus games against Ole Miss (243) and Kentucky (210).

Harris had 5 touchdowns against Ole Miss, which set a South Carolina single-game record and scored in 8 of Carolina’s 10 games in the SEC. His 6.2 yards per carry average leads the nation for running backs with more than 160 carries and Harris just the third Gamecock, joining Marcus Lattimore and George Rogers, to have multiple 200-yard rushing contest.

Horn, a 6-1 junior from Alpharetta, Ga., played and started in 7 games in 2020 and had 16 tackles, 6 pass breakups and a pair of interceptions.

Kaba, a 6-2 freshman from Clinton, NC, played in 9 games and had 13 total tackles to go along with a half tackle for loss.

Kroeger, a 6-3 freshman from Lake Forest, Ill., played in 10 games at punter and had a 43.3-yard average on 39 punts. He was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week on Oct. 19 after having 5 punts for a 48.4-yard average and three punts pinned inside the 20 in the win over Auburn.

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