South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer spoke with the media Saturday afternoon after the Gamecocks\u2019 first scrimmage of the 2023 preseason at Williams-Brice Stadium.<\/p>\n
Beamer spoke on a number of topics including providing an injury update, his feelings on his team so far, and more.<\/p>\n
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[VIP Tickets now available: Gamecock Central Kickoff Party 2023!]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Shane Beamer updates status of Juice Wells, Trey Knox<\/a>Shane Beamer shares first impressions after South Carolina scrimmage<\/a>Shane Beamer talks South Carolina run game, run-stopping ability<\/a>Where South Carolina is turning with Juice Wells, Trey Knox banged up<\/a><\/p>\n Wide receiver Juice Wells<\/a><\/strong> and tight end Trey Knox<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 two of South Carolina football\u2019s projected impact players this season \u2014 were conspicuously absent Friday afternoon during the media viewing window of the Gamecocks\u2019 preseason practice.<\/p>\n Saturday following South Carolina\u2019s first scrimmage of preseason camp, head coach Shane Beamer gave the latest on both players as well as a complete injury report.<\/p>\n \u201cJuice Wells didn\u2019t scrimmage today,\u201d Beamer said. \u201cHe won\u2019t be back next week but optimistic he\u2019ll be back for Game 1 right now the way Juice attacks things. He\u2019s got a little bit of a lower-body injury that he\u2019s dealing with right now. Nothing long-term, just some things that he\u2019s got to get ahold of, and he assures me he\u2019s playing Game 1, and knowing him, he will.\u201d<\/p>\n [VIP Tickets now available: Gamecock Central Kickoff Party 2023!]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In addition to the update on Wells, Beamer provided the latest on the whole team, including Knox who is expected to return on Monday.<\/p>\n \u201cInjury-wise, we\u2019re in decent shape,\u201d Beamer said. \u201cWe had some guys that got banged up today but they all came back and finished, so that was good to see. Unless something changes between tonight and tomorrow morning, we came out of the scrimmage in good shape. The only guys that didn\u2019t scrimmage today were: Terrell Dawkins, expect him back, all of the guys I\u2019m about to name, we expect back next week. Kelton Henderson, the freshman receiver, he didn\u2019t scrimmage today, he\u2019s got a little bit of a hamstring, no issues as well. Pup (Howard) didn\u2019t scrimmage today; we expect him back next week. Trey Knox didn\u2019t scrimmage today, we expect him back Monday. Reid Mikeska, he\u2019s dealing with a little bit of a lower-body injury. He may be a few more weeks. David Spaulding didn\u2019t scrimmage today; expect him back next week.\u201d<\/p>\n Beamer reiterated that despite some bumps and bruises, it\u2019s not time to panic.<\/p>\n \u201cBut other than that, like I said, everybody (else) should be back next week except Reid Mikeska. He may be a couple of more weeks. But as it stands through eight practices, we\u2019re in good shape. It\u2019s not DEFCON 3 like supposedly it\u2019s been on social media the last couple of days. We\u2019ve got some injuries out there. But, my God, It\u2019s football fellas, there\u2019s injuries, there\u2019s things that happen in practice, guys get banged up and come back, they\u2019re tough. It\u2019s called football. Like where we are as a team and toughness, mental and physical, and got a lot to improve on but it\u2019s a good start through eight practices.\u201d<\/p>\n [Enter to win two FREE season tickets to football, MBB, WBB, and baseball from 107.5 The Game!]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Prior to Friday, Wells had participated in each South Carolina practice but had not been on the field for the full-team periods.<\/p>\n A preseason All-SEC selection, the Richmond native emerged as quarterback Spencer Rattler\u2019s top target last season, collecting a team-high 68 catches for 928 yards and six touchdowns. Wells elected in January to return to Columbia for another season after considering leaving for the NFL.<\/p>\n Knox joined the Gamecocks in January after four years at Arkansas where he caught 81 passes for 892 yards and nine TDs in 45 games with 29 starts.<\/p>\n The Gamecocks and North Carolina are set for a 7:30 kickoff on Sept. 2 on ABC in the Duke\u2019s Mayo Classic at Charlotte\u2019s Bank of America Stadium.<\/p>\n South Carolina returns to the practice fields Monday morning at 9:40.<\/a><\/p>\n [Get news from GamecockCentral via email]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post VIDEO: Shane Beamer after first South Carolina scrimmage<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer spoke with the media Saturday afternoon after the Gamecocks\u2019…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Post-scrimmage content<\/h2>\n
Shane Beamer updates status of Juice Wells, Trey Knox<\/h2>\n
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