South Carolina Football: Ranking the top-20 NFL Gamecocks of all-time
By Kevin Miller
South Carolina Football’s No. 14 Greatest NFL Player of All-Time:
Running Back Duce Staley
A Columbia native, Duce Staley (1995-1996) was a stud for two seasons for the Gamecocks and went on to be a 3rd-round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles. Staley put up three 1000-yard seasons for the Eagles, but injuries kept him from even more. Even so, the bruising back racked up over 8000 career yards of total offense with the Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers.
After a brief stint in the Columbia media, Staley got into coaching, and he has been one of the NFL’s top assistant coaches for over a decade with the Eagles, Detroit Lions, and the Carolina Panthers.