The USC Trojans lost a number of quality receivers in the offseason. Jordan Addison went to the NFL and the Minnesota Vikings. Kyle Ford, C.J. Williams, and Gary Bryant all transferred out of the program. Addison and Ford in particular are notable losses. They were very good receivers in their own right and on their own terms, but they also represented very different kinds of wide receivers who gave balance to the Trojans’ wide receiver room.
Addison was a speed receiver who could blow the top off defenses and draw lots of attention from opposing defenses on his side of the field. Ford was a big-bodied receiver who was very hard to guard on intermediate-range routes in which he could box out an opposing safety or linebacker. Addison and Ford represented a yin-yang “brain and brawn” combination which lent a lot of diversity to what USC could achieve in the passing game. These are significant departures.
Yet, as you’ll see, USC is still stacked at receiver heading into the 2023 season.
One analyst placed USC among the very best programs in the country in terms of its wide receiver room. See which other schools joined the Trojans at the top of the list: