COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dylan Stewart is not much of a talker.
The 6-foot-5, 245-pound game-wrecker of a defensive end is polite yet quiet when you sit across from him inside the Long Family Football Operations Center. Coaches joke about how many words you’ll be able to get out of him in an interview. There are no long monologues or trash talking from the sophomore South Carolina star that CBS Sports ranked as the No. 6 player in all of college football coming out of the spring.
He doesn’t need to boast about his talents when you can just turn on the tape and see what could be a generational talent. A five-star prospect in the 2024 class out of Washington D.C., Stewart has drawn comparisons to former Gamecocks star and No. 1 overall pick Jadeveon Clowney. In just his first year of college football, he totaled 6.5 sacks, 9.5 tackles for loss and 34 quarterback hurries. If he keeps improving, he could follow in Clowney’s footsteps and be drafted very high in the 2027 NFL Draft.
Kyle Kennard, Stewart’s former running mate at South Carolina and last year’s best defensive player as the Nagurski winner, couldn’t have been more effusive in his praise.
“Dylan is going to be an all-timer in this sport,” Kennard told CBS Sports. “He’s an athletic freak, gifted. Once he puts everything together that he needs to, the sky is the limit for that guy.”
Quarterback LaNorris Sellers, who thankfully can’t get hit by him but sees his impact every day, described him as “ferocious, vicious.”
Stewart and Sellers are two critical building blocks for a South Carolina program that just missed making last year’s College Football Playoff. The two budding stars give hope that this year’s team could be even better and able to get over the playoff hump. The…
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Author : John Talty
Publish date : 2025-07-25 17:00:00
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