USC retires Williams’ number, restores Bush’s

• Paolo Uggetti, ESPNSep 5, 2024, 05:29 PM ET

USC has retired the No. 13 jersey of Caleb Williams, who invested 2 seasons with the program and won the eighth Heisman Prize in Trojans history.The school made the statement on social media, showing Williams’ number displayed on the Los Angeles Coliseum peristyle among its other Heisman winners. Reggie Bush’s No. 5 also was revealed for the very first time since his Heisman was reinstated in April.️️@ReggieBush @CALEBcsw pic.twitter.com/coU94a7eUg!.?.!— USC Football( @uscfb) September 5, 2024 Bush’s retired

number had been removed in 2010, shortly after USC was sanctioned by the NCAA because Bush received incorrect benefits throughout his college profession from 2003 to 2005. Bush’s Heisman likewise had been left up until this year, when the Heisman Trust restored the prize to the previous star running back, pointing out”enormous changes in the football landscape. “In the past, Bush had actually been determined he did not want to have his number showed at USC games or to be included with the program if his Heisman Trophy had actually not been returned to him. There

is an expectation now Bush will lead the Trojans out of the tunnel before a game this season, however no official date has been set.USC’s announcement about Williams began social networks with a video that included rapper Snoop Dogg, vocalist John Legend, Trojans coach Lincoln Riley, USC women’s basketball player JuJu Watkins

and Williams’colleagues congratulating him on the honor.Legend started the video by singing”Ordinary People, “which Williams tried and failed to sing well throughout a recent episode of “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Chicago Bears”that featured rookie karaoke sessions. The Bears made the star quarterback the very first choice in April and have given that named him their Week 1 starter and a group captain.Honored amongst our Trojan greats … number 13 has actually formally been retired.Congrats, @CALEBcsw pic.twitter.com/vN7nvfRuhR!.?.!— USC Football (@uscfb) September 5, 2024 “You are absolutely, definitely much better at football than singing,”Legend said.”But I wish to congratulate you on getting your number retired.

“In his two seasons at USC, Williams tossed for more than 8,000 backyards and

represented 94 touchdowns in the air and on the ground.”Home of the Heismans! More Heisman Prize winners than any other university,”athletic director Jen Cohen wrote in a post on X.”Let’s go # 5 and # 13 … Can’t wait to commemorate you.” Bush remains in a defamation lawsuit versus the NCAA seeking to hold it”accountable for maliciously assaulting” his character.