A drug raid that was intended to bring in a former South Carolina football player instead netted the biggest star in school history, 1980 Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers.

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"We had no idea he was even going to be in that apartment," Richland County Sheriff Allan Sloan said. "I don't know who was more surprised, the deputies or Mr. Rogers."Rogers, a former running back with the New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins, was arrested on cocaine charges during the weekend raid.

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