Hill Named a Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year Semifinalist
The grad transfer from Colorado State started eight games for the Gamecocks this season.
TEMPE, Ariz. – University of South Carolina redshirt senior quarterback Collin Hill has been named one of 14 Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year Award semifinalists, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced this afternoon (Monday, Dec. 21) in association with the Associated Press (AP) and the Fiesta Bowl Organization.
The three winners will be selected by a vote of AP college football writers and announced on Jan. 2, 2021 in conjunction with the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl.
Hill, a native of Moore, S.C., and a graduate transfer from Colorado State, started eight contests for the Gamecocks this season and passed for 1,411 yards and six touchdowns while rushing for four touchdowns this season. In a win over Auburn on Oct. 17, Hill was 15-for-24 for 144 yards and a touchdown to go along with a rushing score. Hill opened the season by throwing for 290 yards against Tennessee (Sept. 26.) and he had 28 completions for 212 yards and two touchdowns at Florida (Oct. 3).
Hill earned the starting quarterback job coming out of training camp after missing most of the 2019 season following an ACL injury suffered in the third game of the season. It was the third ACL surgery of his career on his left knee (2016 and 2018).
South Carolina is the only school to have Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year semifinalists all three seasons of the award’s history. Deebo Samual (2018) and DJ Wonnum (2019) also were named to the award list.
Since 2018, a panel of writers, editors and sports information directors from CoSIDA, AP and Touchdown Illustrated have recognized college football student-athletes each season from all divisions of college football for overcoming injury or illness, by sharing their remarkable comeback stories.
2020 Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year Semifinalists
Jarek Broussard, RB, Colorado
Evan Finegan, P, Buffalo
Feleipe Franks, QB, Arkansas
Jake Funk, RB, Maryland
Daelin Hayes, DE, Notre Dame
Collin Hill, QB, South Carolina
Kenneth Horsey, OL, Kentucky
Silas Kelly, LB, Coastal Carolina
Erick Kendzior, DL, Louisiana Tech
Dylan Moses, LB, Alabama
Kyle Pugh, LB, Northern Illinois
Tylan Wallace, WR, Oklahoma State
Rashad Weaver, DL, Pittsburgh
James Wiggins, S, Cincinnati
