Patrick Mannelly Award names South Carolina football senior to preseason watch list

The 2024 edition of the South Carolina football team, like most of the rest of the teams in the sport, begins fall camp this week. That means that the season is drawing near (33 days from kickoff for the Gamecocks), and that also means it is "list season."

Whether it is online pundits, national media, or award voters, it feels like everyone is making lists this time of year. On Monday, Carolina running back Rocket Sanders was included on the Maxwell Award preseason watch list. He was joined in the award list conversation a little while later by one of his teammates.

The Patrick Mannelly Award revealed its Patrick Mannelly Award preseason watch list, and South Carolina football long snapper Hunter Rogers made the cut.

Rogers is 1 of 30 long snappers from around the country to be chosen for the preseason list as one of the top deep snappers in the sport.

Rogers is no stranger to accolades as he has made All-SEC squads his last two seasons, and he has found his way onto preseason All-SEC and All-American teams this summer.

The most well-known moment of his South Carolina football career came in the 2022 Gator Bowl against Notre Dame when he caught a touchdown pass from punter Kai Kroeger on a patented Pete Lembo special teams gadget play. He also was responsible for redirecting Clemson Tigers return man Antonio Williams before Nate Adkins forced the game-sealing fumble (recovered by Nick Emmanwori) in the 2022 rivalry matchup.

Barring more trick plays (which are still a possibility under new special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis), Rogers might not hear his name called all season. If that is the case, that means he is doing a great job of delivering accurate snaps on punts and field goal attempts. If Rogers does what Rogers does this season, South Carolina football will be one step closer to returning to the elite special teams production they experienced in 2022 and 2021.

The entire Patrick Mannelly Award preseason watch list can be seen below:

Austin Brinkman, West Virginia Mountaineers
Austin Riggs, Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Beau Gardner, Georgia Bulldogs
Ben Anderson, Oklahoma Sooners
Brent Matiscik, TCU Horned Frogs
Byron Floyd, Buffalo Bisons
Cayson Pfeiffer, Wisconsin Badgers
Christian Johnstone, Appalachian State Mountaineers
Colby Cox, Memphis Tigers
Dylan Black, Oregon State Beavers
Eli Stein, Arkansas Razorbacks
Ethan Hudak, Tulane Green Wave
Hank Pepper, Southern Cal Trojans
Hunter Rogers, South Carolina Gamecocks
Jacob Garcia, Utah State Aggies
JT Greep, Utah Utes
Julian Ashby, Vanderbilt Commodores
Kneeland Hibbett, Alabama Crimson Tide
Luke Elkin, Iowa Hawkeyes
Luke Hosford, Kansas Jayhawks
Nicholas Marino, Florida Atlantic Owls
Philip Florenzo, Clemson Tigers
Rocco Underwood, Florida Gators
Ryan Wintermeyer, San Diego State Aztecs
Slade Roy, LSU Tigers
Travis Drosos, UCLA Bruins
Tucker Dunn, Ball State Cardinals
Tyler Duzansky, Penn State Nittany Lions
Will Halkyard, Northwestern Wildcats
William Wagner, Michigan Wolverines