After battling drug problems and alcoholism, former SC receiver R. Jay Soward is trying to get back into the league:

For two years, Soward was in and out of rehab, trying to get clean, but never quite achieving it.

   

He didn’t touch bottom until 2003. Pretty much all of ’03.

   

"I
was just laying in bed," he said. "I couldn’t get up, couldn’t do
anything. I just physically laid there almost the whole year, and I
totally stopped taking drug tests and I said, `Forget the NFL, I’m
pretty much done.’ "

…Soward didn’t play in 2006. He repaired televisions, worked in a warehouse and stoked his competitive fires. 

   

"It was when he was in Canada that he realized that he really, really wanted to play football," Caldwell said.

…Soward doesn’t want to be remembered as a guy who had it all – and
almost immediately threw it away. "I want to be a guy who faces up to
responsibilities and doesn’t run away from them," he said.

Good luck to R. Jay.  The chances he makes it back are slim, but with his raw athleticism it certainly is possible.  No question he was one of the fastest players in SC football history.