VIDEO: Deebo Samuel makes insane catch-and-run for touchdown on MNF
Deebo Samuel showed off his entire repertoire of skills on Monday Night Football when the former South Carolina Gamecocks receiver went for 57 yards on a catch-and-run for touchdown that may be the best play of the young NFL season.
The fourth-year standout for the 49ers caught a short in-route on 3rd down from quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, leaping into the air and taking the ball away from a defender before doing what he does best, turning into a running back once the ball is in his hands.
The Chapman High graduate hit the ground, squared up his feet and ran through a would-be tackler, exploded into the open field, then juked another defender, and then ran through another tackle attempt before coasting to the end zone.
But don’t take our word for it, check it out for yourself below…
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After consecutive wins, South Carolina heads into big litmus test against Kentucky
By Collyn Taylor
Through five games, South Carolina sits at a place where most people from the outside looking in thought the Gamecocks would be.
They’re 3-2 with wins over Georgia State, Charlotte and South Carolina State with losses to Georgia and on the road at Arkansas as well.
But now comes a pivotal stretch for the Gamecocks this season, beginning with a litmus test at top-20 Kentucky Saturday night.
“It’s important every week. You’re judged on 12 Saturdays a year. We won three of ‘em and didn’t play well in two of ‘em,” Shane Beamer said Sunday night. “Every single week we try and get better as a football team.”
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Recap from Shane Beamer’s Sunday teleconference
After two losses to the Razorbacks and third-ranked Bulldogs, the Gamecocks went out and beat two teams it should by a combined score of 106-30.
It was a chance for South Carolina to iron out some of the kinks the early-season games exposed, and to a degree the Gamecocks did.
South Carolina is now entering its biggest test since taking care of two opponents it was heavily favored against.
South Carolina will now have to go against a team that’s dominated the series the last decade to show the kind of progress the Gamecocks made over the last eight quarters of football.