{"id":167991,"date":"2025-08-23T01:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167991\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T01:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:59:10","slug":"gamecocks-assistant-robertson-hospitalized-after-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167991\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamecocks assistant Robertson hospitalized after car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rittenberg_adam.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Adam RittenbergAug 22, 2025, 08:04 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/2579\/south-carolina-gamecocks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina<\/a> assistant football coach Travian Robertson has been hospitalized in stable condition after being involved in a car accident Friday in the Columbia, South Carolina, area, the school said.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told ESPN that Robertson, 36, was taken to a local hospital with a significant lower leg injury. Robertson is South Carolina&#8217;s defensive line coach, and he played defensive line for the Gamecocks from 2007 to 2011, serving as a team captain in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Travian Robertson was involved in a car accident this morning. He is currently in the hospital in stable condition,&#8221; the school said in a statement. &#8220;We expect him to make a full recovery and be back out on the field soon. Please keep the families of those involved in the accident in your prayers and respect the Robertson family&#8217;s privacy during this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robertson was a seventh-round draft pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-falcons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> in 2012 and spent two years with the team before shorter stints with Seattle and Washington. He was a defensive line coach at Albany State, Georgia State and Tulane before joining South Carolina&#8217;s staff in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Messages left for the Columbia Police Department and the South Carolina Highway Patrol were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina opens the 2025 season against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/259\/virginia-tech-hokies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Tech<\/a> on Aug. 31 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam RittenbergAug 22, 2025, 08:04 PM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-167991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115075610479011353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}