With Pick 3A in the 2024 Draft GB Selects RB Marshawn Lloyd USC

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CAREER: In his 3-year career at South Carolina (2020-22) while appearing in 21 games (with 8 starts), he ran for 801 yards on 175 carries (4.6 avg) with 10 TDs and caught 21 passes for 220 yards (10.5 avg) with 2 TDs.

2023: Lloyd, who transferred to USC in the spring of 2023 from South Carolina, will compete for playing time in the Trojan backfield as a running back as a redshirt junior (with two years of eligibility remaining).

SOUTH CAROLINA: Lloyd was South Carolina’s rushing leader as a redshirt sophomore running back in 2022 while appearing in 9 games with 8 starts (appearing in all games but Vanderbilt, Florida, Tennessee and Notre Dame). He ran for 573 yards on 111 carries (5.2 avg.) with 9 TDs and caught 18 passes for 176 yards (9.8 avg.) with 2 TDs on the season. He led the team with 11 total TDs. He ran for 27 yards on 11 carries (2.7 avg.) with a TD and caught 2 receptions for 31 yards (15.5 avg.) and 1 TD against Georgia State, then had 23 yards on 7 rushing attempts (3.3 avg.) with 1 TD and also 6 receptions for 72 yards (12.0 avg.) against Arkansas. He tallied 22 yards on 9 rushing attempts (2.4 avg.) and 2 receptions for 4 yards (2.0 avg.) against the 2022 national champion Georgia. He had 169 rushing yards on 15 attempts (11.3 avg.) with 3 TDs against Charlotte, and collected 80 rushing yards on 11 attempts (7.3 avg.) with 1 TD and 3 receptions for 11 yards (3.7 avg.) with 1 TD against South Carolina State. He had 110 rushing yards on 22 attempts (5.0 avg.) with 1 TD and 2 receptions for 31 yards against Kentucky. He collected 92 rushing yards on 18 carries (5.1 avg.) with 2 TDs and had 2 receptions for 24 yards (12.0 avg.) against Texas A&M. He tallied 30 rushing yards on 7 carries (4.3 avg.) against Missouri, and had 17 rushing yards on 11 attempts (1.5 avg.) and 1 reception for 3 yards against Clemson.

As a redshirt freshman in 2021, he appeared in 12 games (except North Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl). He ran for 228 yards on 64 carries (3.6 avg.) with 1 TD and caught 3 passes for 44 yards (14.7 avg.) on the season. He earned placement on the 2021 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll. He had 55 rushing yards on 14 attempts (3.9 avg.) and 1 reception for 19 yards against Eastern Illinois. He recorded 21 rushing yards on 7 carries (3.0 avg.) against East Carolina, and had 19 rushing yards on 5 attempts (3.8 avg.) against Georgia. He tallied 3 rushing yards on 1 carry (3.0 avg.) against Kentucky, and had 3 rushing yards on 3 attempts (1.0 avg.) against Troy. He had 24 rushing yards on 6 attempts (4.0 avg.) against Tennessee, and collected 21 rushing yards on 6 carries (3.5 avg.) against Vanderbilt. He had 25 rushing yards on 7 attempts (3.6 avg.) scoring his first career TD versus Texas A&M, and had 46 rushing yards on 7 carries (6.6 avg.) against Florida. He collected 8 rushing yards on 6 attempts (1.3 avg.) and 2 receptions for 25 yards against Missouri, and had 3 rushing yards on 2 carries (1.5 avg.) against Clemson.

He sat out the 2020 season as a true freshman due to a torn ACL in his left knee on the second day of fall camp. He was named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL: He graduated from DeMatha Catholic (Md.) HS after the fall semester to enroll early at South Carolina. He helped the Stags to a 7-4 mark as a senior while serving as a team captain. He was selected for the Opening Finals, the Under Armour All-American Bowl and for the Polynesian Bowl. He earned the top spot on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays after a 69-yard run against Good Counsel in which he hurdled a defender on his way to a touchdown.

He also competed in the sprint events in track and field at DeMatha Catholic.

PERSONAL: He is majoring in Social Sciences with an emphasis in Psychology at USC with a 3.25 GPA. He was named to the 2022 SEC Football Community Service Team for his heart for community service and has been involved in several projects, many of which are in his home state of Delaware. Locally, he has participated in the Shop With Jocks program, where he goes Christmas shopping with the kids from the Epworth Children’s Home. He has also been involved with a panel discussion regarding student-athletes and injuries, relaying his own experience of sustaining a season-ending injury and the mental and physical toll it takes to rehab and return to the playing field.
 
Will Lloyd become the first Packer to get to wear the number 0? Was college number and no Packer as wore it since the league has allowed it.
 
SCOUTING REPORT BY DANNY KELLY
Lloyd is built like a fire hydrant, sporting a thick, muscular frame. A transfer to USC from South Carolina, the Trojans standout is quick and explosive, running with a low center of gravity and excellent contact balance. He’s extremely elusive and racked up 47 missed tackles forced on just 115 carries in 2023 (an elite rate), adding another 10 missed tackles forced on 13 receptions, per PFF. He showed the burst and acceleration to get to the corner and beat pursuit angles, and he used hesitation moves and jump cuts to make opponents whiff at the second level. Lloyd runs with a good feel for tempo and pace, waiting for his blocks to set up before picking the right moment to cut downhill or break to the outside. He’s a tough inside runner who churns and jukes and spins his way to extra yards. He wasn’t deployed as a pass catcher all that much in college (just 31 catches in the past two seasons), but he does flash some high-level pass-catching ability—and he impressed in that area at the Senior Bowl. Lloyd has some real juice as a runner and showed off his explosive traits at the combine, running a 4.46-second 40-yard dash (giving him an 85th percentile speed score) while adding a 36-inch vertical jump.
Lloyd’s pass-blocking needs work. The effort is there, but he doesn’t consistently drop an anchor in the face of an oncoming rusher and will get knocked back in the pocket at times. He fumbled four times in 2023, losing three of them. He’s never carried a big workload, averaging 12.3 carries per game in 2022 for South Carolina and just 10.5 carries per game for the Trojans last year.
WHY HE COULD RISE
Lloyd is a highly elusive, big-play back who flashes talent as a pass catcher; he’s a creator who brings the potential to play on all three downs.
WHY HE COULD FALL
He’s never carried a heavy workload and is relatively unproven in the passing game; he has had some ball-security issues.
BACKGROUND AND STATS BY DANIEL COMER
  • A redshirt junior and former four-star prospect out of Hyattsville, Maryland. Was the fifth-ranked running back in his recruitment class and the no. 43 player overall. Spent his first three college seasons with South Carolina before transferring to USC in 2023.
  • Suffered a torn ACL (left knee) on the second day of fall camp during his true freshman year at South Carolina in 2020 but played in all 12 games as a reserve for the Gamecocks in 2021.
  • Became South Carolina’s starting running back in 2022 and finished the season with 573 rushing yards (5.2 per attempt), nine rushing touchdowns, 176 receiving yards, and two touchdown catches. He missed three of South Carolina’s final four regular-season games due to a quad contusion.
  • Was Southern California’s leading running back during his first and only season with the Trojans. Lloyd finished the 2023 campaign with 820 rushing yards (7.1 per carry) and nine rushing touchdowns, as well as 232 receiving yards on 13 catches.
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Everyone saying he is a Josh Jacobs clone.
 
McGinn scout>

MARSHAWN LLOYD, RB, SOUTHERN CAL
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  • Rd. 3/Pk. 88.
  • Height: 5-8 ½.
  • Weight: 221.
  • 40: 4.45.
  • Wonderlic: NA.
  • Hometown: Wilmington, Del.
Fact/Stat: Was the fourth running back selected; he finished seventh in my pre-draft poll of scouts. Fourth-year junior spent his first three years at South Carolina before heading to USC in 2023. Redshirted in 2020 after suffering a torn ACL that August.

NFC scout: “Fast guy. He can catch the f—k out of the ball. His Senior Bowl was really good. Third round.”

AFC scout: “Good player, good kid. He’s got all the intangibles you’re looking for. Thick as hell. He has everything.”

NFC scout: “He’s got no vision. The vision’s not there, the feel’s not there. Just whatever’s ahead of you run straight as hard as you can. If there’s a crease, you burst through. If there’s not, you get chopped down. Doesn’t know how to protect his body. Doesn’t know how to (pick and) slide, doesn’t know how to get skinny. Kind of a slasher with a crease. He’s a straight-line fast guy, not a true running back. He was like a backup there. He doesn’t know how to run. Doesn’t have much elusiveness. I wouldn’t take him until very late depending how the knee checked out. He played with that brace on his left knee.”

AFC scout: “He’s a strong, quick runner with good speed and big-play ability. Two things I didn’t like about him were his height and the way he finishes. Excellent balance. Strong lower body. Catches the ball. I couldn’t believe he weighed 220 and ran that time. Second round.”
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220 at 5'9" is bulky but he doesn't really look/play like that. Interesting; never looked at his weight

I hope that the bouncing habit gets a ton better with a more structured, reliable run blocking unit in front of him. A couple tweaks to his game and he could be something. Durability hasn't been excellent, but he's rotational early and low mileage so it might just be coincidence or a nonfactor for us.
 
See people are against the Lloyd pick because he's 23 years old. With his age being 23 years old. Thing is he does not even have 300 career carries on him so there is low mileage on him. GB can easily get 4 years out of him and then at 27 he probably won't have a ton of suitors on him at that age so GB either gets him cheap on a 2nd contract or in 4 years drafts another RB to replace him. Win Win IMO.
 
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