Chuma Edoga, Isaac Whitney, Roy Hemsley, Ricky Town and Cameron Smith begin taking classes this week.

They are the first five members of the 2015 recruiting class to enroll and the remainder of the class will enroll after the Spring Semester, which began today.

The five members of the 2015 recruiting class will be joining several former Trojan football players who are back at USC to work toward earning their degrees.

Former Trojan football players enrolled this spring are Darnell Bing, Shaun Cody, Chilo Rachal, Dominique Byrd, Marqise Lee, Silas Redd, Nickell Robey, Robert Woods and Demetrius Wright.

One of the benefits USC student athletes are given as scholarship players is, if they leave early to pursue a professional career in their chosen sport, they can return to USC, work toward earning their degree and the school pays their tuition.