Jordan Rodgers hits LaNorris Sellers with mixed expectations in 2025, compares potential to Cam Netwon

South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers is projected as one of the best quarterbacks in all of college football for this upcoming season. Still, with it being just his second year as a starter, there’s still some improvements to his game that could make him that much better this year as a redshirt sophomore.

ESPN’s Jordan Rodgers talked about several quarterbacks in the Southeastern Conference while on ‘The Paul Finebaum Show’ this afternoon from SEC Media Days on Monday. Sellers, who was also in attendance today in Atlanta, was among the ones he touched on, with Rodgers starting with the pros in his game with what he has physically that compares him to one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the sport.

“Yeah, people are going crazy because of the skill set, alright,” said Rodgers. “I mean, he’s so big, he’s so athletic, he has a huge arm.”

“Sellers is so physically gifted,” Rodgers added later. “The hype is warranted because he could be Cam Newton – or he could be just okay.”

That last bit was in reference to some of the cons, though, that he has with Sellers. For all he has in his frame, Rodgers wants to see him become a better, more accurate passer to better improve his dual-threat abilities as a runner.

“If there’s any reservation, which I have some reservations about him as well, it’s the consistency, right. But, I will say, you saw him get better over the year, especially towards the end of the year. At times early in the year, he was wildly inaccurate on the run, throwing the perimeter. Balls would air mail at times. He got a lot more consistent with some of those throws,” said Rodgers. “I need to see him, from a decision-making standpoint, make the right choices more consistently and accuracy, especially to the perimeter.”

All this is to be viewed from the lens of Sellers being a first-year player for the Gamecocks. He, with that, would finish the season posting 65.6% completion for 2,534 yards, 18 touchdowns, and seven interceptions when passing on top of rushing for 674 yards and seven more scores to average him out to 267.4 total yards per game with 25 touchdowns scored. That then improved over their final seven games, which the team went 6-1 in, when Sellers was up to 67.5% completion for 248.7 yards per game with 14 touchdowns and three picks while rushing for 65 yards a game and four more scores.

However, at 20 years old entering his second season as a collegiate starter, there could be another level in the development for Sellers. If that happened this offseason going into this fall, Sellers could be more than enough to take South Carolina to a place they haven’t been before.

“If those two improve? I mean, he has as much talent as anybody in the country,” said Rodgers. “He could absolutely take this team to a College Football Playoff, as he almost did last year.”