{"id":155293,"date":"2025-09-14T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:02:08","slug":"south-carolina-qb-lanorris-sellers-ruled-out-after-hit-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155293\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers ruled out after hit to head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757818928_310_olson_max.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Max OlsonSep 13, 2025, 10:01 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Covers the Big 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the University of Nebraska<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6509690a-8cf2-b255-5af7-b6a1a1010ac4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/2579\/south-carolina-gamecocks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina<\/a> quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"1422dc7e-cea6-3d89-8c08-f0c64dc45ee1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4875127\/lanorris-sellers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaNorris Sellers<\/a> exited Saturday night&#8217;s game against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f2c5bf52-4c7d-78ea-ce4d-6a91faee67c8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/238\/vanderbilt-commodores\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanderbilt<\/a> after suffering a hit to the head and will not return, Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer told ESPN&#8217;s Cole Cubelic.<\/p>\n<p>Sellers went down after taking a high hit from Vanderbilt linebacker <a data-player-guid=\"eaa7cbf6-d800-35e3-b553-40cdb5468570\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4557348\/langston-patterson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Langston Patterson<\/a> on a pass in the final two minutes of the second quarter and went to the locker room. Patterson was ejected from the game for targeting on the play.<\/p>\n<p>Sellers is ESPN&#8217;s No. 1 ranked quarterback prospect for the 2026 NFL draft and has produced 476 total yards and three touchdowns through three games.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2026\/story\/_\/id\/46149416\/2026-nfl-draft-rankings-top-prospects-position\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nfl_reid-too-early_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sellers completed 6 of 7 passes for 94 yards with one interception in a game that South Carolina trailed 14-7 at halftime. Backup <a data-player-guid=\"453101fe-def9-3542-adb7-a7650d41d4ec\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4429079\/luke-doty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Doty<\/a>, a sixth-year senior who has earned nine starts during his career, replaced Sellers to finish the first half.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime, Beamer expressed his displeasure with how long officials took to review the play for targeting. Officials took more than 90 seconds after the end of the play to initiate a targeting review and blew their whistles right before Doty completed a pass to <a data-player-guid=\"ba5151d8-970d-3392-a7ca-d36457686250\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4870745\/nyck-harbor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nyck Harbor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked him as soon as it happened if [they were] looking at it for targeting,&#8221; Beamer said during his halftime interview. &#8220;For our quarterback to be laying there on the ground like that, he probably got hit in the head. And then for whatever reason it took them a while to buzz down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on in Birmingham or wherever they look at it, but I thought it was pretty obvious.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max OlsonSep 13, 2025, 10:01 PM ET CloseCovers the Big 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-155293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}