USC Morning Buzz: Let’s Look At That Corner Spot

Last week, four-star cornerback RJ Sermons, who is committed to USC, reclassified from Class of 2026 to Class of 2025.

It’s significant because this is how the USC depth chart roughly looked at the three corner spots before Sermons’ decision:

  • CB/DJ Harvey/Sr.

James Johnson, Fr.

  • CB/DeCarlos Nicholson/Sr.

Marcelles Williams, Fr.

  • CB/Christian Pierce/Jr.

Prophet Brown, Sr.

Harvey is an experienced transfer from San Jose State. So that spot is OK. Nicholson was a disappointment last year and didn’t play as much as anticipated. Pierce is untested.

And those would be the starters. Williams has a lot of promise and now Sermons will join him in the up-and-coming dept.

But overall, the position is full of questions. It’s going to be under the microscope all season. Players could rotate simply because the starters don’t seize the positions as anticipated.

20 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Let’s Look At That Corner Spot

  1. KAM: This was the depth chart last season:

    CB Jacobe Covington (6-2 / 200 / R-Sr.)
    19 John Humphrey (6-2 / 196 / R-Sr.)

    CB 2 Jaylin Smith (5-11 / 190 / Sr.)
    17 DeCarlos Nicholson (6-3 / 195 / R-Sr.)

    This is the depth chart for 2025:

    CB 2 DJ Harvey RS-SR/TR 22 Chasen Johnson SO Braylon Conley RS-FR Trestin Castro FR

    R-CB 25 Marcelles WilliamsRS-FR 17 DeCarlos NicholsonRS-SR/TR 34Kevin LongstreetRS-SO/TR 27Alex GrahamFR

    DON: Ruh roh!

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  2. KAM: Wrap your head around this. President Trump was impeached over wanting to look into the crimes the Bidens pardoned themselves for.

    DON: And no apologies from the Democrats who pulled that stunt.

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    1. Right. The IRS whistleblowers testified that they tracked 8.3 million in payments going from Burisma to the Biden family, a criminal complaint was drafted against Hunter for tax fraud, but Merritt Garland’s department of justice refused to move forward. Amazingly, the press wasn’t interested in this story. They were more interested in whether Trump’s bookkeeper improperly listed an NDA payment as a legal expense on a corporate form.

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  3. Braylon Conley also received high praise in Fall practices last year along with Marcelles Williams. Tavon Reed likes Chasen Johnson and Trestin Castro, the true freshman, supposed to be very good. If just one of these guys is ready to play, we should be solid at cornerback.

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      1. Yes. You have a competition between 2 very good returning Freshman, a transfer who started for UCF, and some very good incoming Freshman. One or two of those guys are going to be good.

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  4. KAM: South African President Ramaphosa actually says that the chants to “K*ll the Boer” and “K*ll the farmer” is just “a liberation chant and slogan.” “It’s not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to be k*lled.” “Freedom of expression is a bedrock.”

    DON: Beyond hope or reasoning with.

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  5. KAM:More than 300 hooligan youths took to the streets of Los Angeles, vandalizing buildings and Metro buses after their unpermitted rooftop concert in an abandoned building was canceled. I hope you’re sitting down, even with all the destruction, metro service interruption, and LAPD firing rubber bullets, not a single arrest was made…

    DON: Governor Mimbo and Mayor Bass: Crime is down!

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  6. KAM: Dem Strategist on Democrat party spending $20M on the Speaking With American Men study trying to connect with young men by studying their “syntax” — — says the key is “authenticity.”

    DON: You can’t make this stuff up.

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    1. Words they should exclude from trying to connect with actual men: fist, dildo, neck bulge, hung like a pimple, crotch kick, triggered, 12 year olds, Barstow, meet up, mushroom, feces videos.

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      1. “Would you like to come to my sword fight party.”

        “How about a game of butt darts.”

        “The goats with the ribbons on their tails kick.”

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      2. “he claim to help family there.” Are you mocking Mr. Branch Cowardly Gabby. Do you think he is unable to speak normal English because he is Black. Stop your racist bs. We are tired of it.

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      3. KAM: Remember when Cowardly Gabby told us Senile Joe was as sharp as a tack?

        DON: Why would she want to remind us what a shameless liar she is?

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