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 Draft Scout College Football Player News: Clemson
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  ESPN TOP 100 PRESEASON 2022 CFB PLAYERS (Selected Aug. 17): No. 63. Tyler Davis, DT, Clemson, Senior. Notable 2021 stat: 23 tackles (8 solo), 2.5 sacks. Last year's ranking 57. It's been a slog for Davis the past two years. He burst onto the scene as a true freshman in 2019, racking up 6.5 sacks and 10 tackles for loss from the interior and looking like a future first-round pick. But he has been limited to just 16 games over the past two seasons, battling injuries routinely, and he managed just 4.5 sacks in the process. He's finally healthy to kick off 2022, and he'll have a chance to finally build off the stellar start to his career. - ESPN.com

rSr/2024 DT Tyler Davis, Clemson
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  ESPN TOP 100 PRESEASON 2022 CFB PLAYERS (Selected Aug. 17): No. 55. Will Shipley, RB, Clemson, Sophomore. Notable 2021 stats: 739 yards, 11 TDs. Last year's ranking: NR. As a true freshman last season, Shipley came in with advance hype as the No. 2 high school running back in the country. Despite missing two games in the middle of the season with a leg injury, Shipley showed his potential - rushing for 738 yards and 11 touchdowns - the second most by a Clemson true freshman behind Travis Etienne's 13 in 2017. His presence in the backfield in 2022 will be a huge key to Clemson's chances to turning around its fortunes on offense. - ESPN.com

Jr/2024 RB Will Shipley, Clemson
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  ESPN TOP 100 PRESEASON 2022 CFB PLAYERS (Selected Aug. 17): No. 53. Xavier Thomas, DE, Clemson, Senior. Notable 2021 stat: 21 tackles (12 solo), 3.5 sacks. Last year's ranking: 58. A former five-star recruit, Thomas announced his arrival with style, delivering a highlight reel hit on Syracuse QB Eric Dungey to secure a Clemson win in 2018. Stardom appeared imminent, but COVID-19 and other injuries kept Thomas in check for much of the next two years. In 2021, however, he finally delivered on that promise, racking up 14 QB hurries, 3.5 sacks and two forced fumbles. He also led the ACC with a 14.1% pressure rate. - ESPN.com

rSr/2024 DE Xavier Thomas, Clemson
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  ESPN TOP 100 PRESEASON 2022 CFB PLAYERS (Selected Aug. 17): No. 38. Trenton Simpson, LB, Clemson, Junior. Notable 2021 stats: 65 tackles (41 solo), 6 sacks. Last year's ranking: NR. Simpson emerged last season as the next premier linebacker at Clemson, finishing third on the team with 78 tackles, while ranking second on the team in tackles for loss (12) and sacks (six). A projected first-round pick in the 2023 NFL draft, coach Dabo Swinney described the 6-3, 240-pound Simpson this way as fall camp began: "He's a freak, man," Swinney said. "He is big, strong, fast and lean, and smart." - ESPN.com

rJr/2023 OLB *Trenton Simpson, Clemson
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  2022 COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S TOP STAR DUOS/TRIOS: Clemson defensive linemen Bryan Bresee (first-team) and Myles Murphy (second-team) are both preseason AP All-Americans. Murphy has 11 sacks, and five forced fumbles in 25 games, starting 16 of them. Bresee only played in four games last season before getting sidelined with a torn ACL. - AP College Football

rSo/2023 DT *Bryan Bresee, Clemson
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  D.J. Uiagalelei is Clemson's starting quarterback. But that doesn't mean Cade Klubnik will only be holding a clipboard early this season. Clemson offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter reiterated after an Aug. 22 preseason camp practice that Klubnik will have a chance to play. Of course, the opener with ACC foe Georgia Tech is followed by non-conference games with Furman and Louisiana Tech, and should afford the Tigers an opportunity to bring the five-star freshman into the mix. "Cade's gonna play, there's no doubt about it," Streeter said. "How much is hard to tell. We're still a couple weeks away, and that's always based on what we're doing on offense, and how we're moving the ball, and all those things, take a big part of it, too." Clemson's coaches have been careful to buttress comments about Klubnik by reaffirming Uiagalelei is atop the depth chart.

The junior from California threw more interceptions, 10, than touchdowns, nine, during the 2021 season and completed 55.6 percent of his passes. He finished 15th in the ACC in passing efficiency, but there is hope Uiagalelei has refined his mechanics and can produce better results in his second year as starter. Klubnik, though, continues to make progress as the Tigers' No. 2. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has raved about Klubnik's speed as a runner, calling him a "problem" for defenses as a scrambler. While Klubnik has suffered from some "purple jersey syndrome," failing to get the ball out of his hands because he can't be hit by defenders, he's being coached out of that habit. If coaching won't do it, playing in a game certainly will. "Once he gets lit a few times, he'll get rid of it," Swinney said. - Charleston Post Courier

Sr/2026 QB Cade Klubnik, Clemson
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  Myles Murphy stands 6-5, 278 pounds, but the Clemson defensive end aims to keep his head below the clouds. The junior, who finds himself mentioned among the top NFL draft prospects for 2023, will politely shrug off questions about the next step. It doesn't matter what a mock draft says. Murphy's father recently reminded him that Georgia defensive end Travon Walker wasn't even projected as a top prospect coming into the '21 season - and he just went No. 1 overall to the Jacksonville Jaguars in April. "A lot of those mock drafts, they can be right," Murphy said. "But most of them are incorrect." Still, some of the same freakish athletic traits that shot Walker up the board - at 6-5, 272 pounds - are undoubtedly present in Murphy.

His size, his power, his surprisingly nimble feet. Along with mock drafts, Murphy's name appeared on national college football analyst Bruce Feldman's list of the top "freaks" in the sport, citing the Clemson defensive end's 405-pound bench press, 505-pound deadlift and a 40-yard dash time clocked in the high 4.5-second range. Murphy can't deny it all - or what it means. "I'm even faster, honestly," Murphy said. "In high school, I got a 4.53, a 4.51, something like that. Haven't run a 40 since then. So we'll see. We'll see during the combine or whatever." As a former five-star recruit, it's been long-suspected Murphy's journey would eventually intersect with the NFL. Barring the unexpected, he will find himself in Indianapolis in late February, verifying that 40 time for NFL scouts. Murphy's highlight reel from the 2022 season will be utilized to evaluate how his freakish traits translate to a football field. - Charleston Post Courier

Jr/2023 DE *Myles Murphy, Clemson
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  Though DJ Uiagalelei remains the No. 4 Tigers' clear starter, Cade Klubnik's performance across two preseason camp scrimmages have further emphasized just how ready the backup is. "The game has slowed down for him," Swinney said Wednesday. "Cade has done an awesome job," offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter added Monday. "He's done nothing but continue to get better and better and better." Klubnik looked mostly sharp in his unofficial Clemson debut in the Tigers' April spring game, completing 15 of 23 passes for 106 yards and a touchdown to Uiagalelei's 17 of 36, 175-yard stat line. But the early enrollee also took five "sacks" - plays whistled dead since defenders weren't allowed to hit the purple jersey-wearing quarterbacks - and, as is frequent with freshmen, needed to bulk up for transition from high school to college football.

Consider the latter point solved. The 6-foot-2 Klubnik jumped from 185 pounds in January to 197 in August, making up a frame that the 6-4, 234-pound Uiagalelei doesn't quite dwarf. And though Klubnik's "purple jersey syndrome" is still a lingering issue, Swinney said he's playing smarter - and more dynamically - in the pocket. Added weight also hasn't done anything to slow down the former No. 6 national recruit. "Cade, he's a problem in the pocket because he's really, really fast," Swinney said. "It's just awesome, because he can really create. It's good for Clemson. It's also good for our defense to see some speed like that, because he can really, really run." - The State

Sr/2026 QB Cade Klubnik, Clemson
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  Hunter Johnson stood just inside a tunnel at Memorial Stadium, admitting to some feelings of déjà vu as he completed another practice with his old-and-new team. Then Clemson coach Dabo Swinney walked by, repeating one of his new favorite words. "Boomerang...boomerang..." Swinney loves it. In the era of the transfer portal, when players are hopping from one school to another, Clemson made a rare decision to take a player from another university. But he took Johnson, a sixth-year quarterback who spent four years at Northwestern after a freshman season at Clemson. He left, then came back.

When the former five-star prospect transferred in the summer of 2018, he made what felt like a very permanent decision. Johnson was leaving behind what felt like - and turned out to be - a championship team. That was hard. But the era of Trevor Lawrence was dawning. Johnson loved Clemson, but he needed a fresh start. So he went out the door, never expecting to come back. He didn't know what the next four years at Northwestern would hold, dealing with concussions, knee injuries, and a pandemic. It's only because of the pandemic - and the NCAA granting athletes an additional year of eligibility - that Johnson can wear a Clemson uniform again. "Just putting all that in perspective, I've really been trying to soak it up this year and just have fun with it," Johnson said. "If this is my last year, and I have an opportunity to play at all after this, just knowing that I gave it all I had." - Charleston Post Courier

rSr/2023 QB Hunter Johnson, Clemson
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  FRESHMEN WITH HIGH EXPECTATIONS TO WATCH IN 2022: CADE KLUBNIK, QB, CLEMSON,...A Texas native rated among the top three quarterback prospects in 2022, Klubnik might not take the job away from DJ Uiagalelei right away, but any hint of struggle - Uiagalelei threw 10 interceptions and nine touchdown passes last season - could find the freshman warming up and ready to be thrown in the fire. At Westlake High School in Austin, he became the first quarterback to lead his team to back-to-back unbeaten seasons and state championships in Texas' highest classification since Kyler Murray. - AP College Football

Sr/2026 QB Cade Klubnik, Clemson
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  All-conference Clemson football defensive end Xavier Thomas will miss four to six weeks with a foot injury, defensive coordinator Wes Goodwin said Monday. Thomas, a presumed starter and former five-star recruit, injured his foot in the Tigers' first scrimmage of preseason camp on Saturday in Memorial Stadium. "He's had a great camp and he's in a great spot conditioning-wise," Goodwin said of Thomas. "It's an unfortunate setback, but he's got the right mindset and we'll respond and get him back early in the year." Goodwin said he would defer to coach Dabo Swinney on the specifics of Thomas' injury, including what type of foot injury it was and which foot it was on.

Swinney's next scheduled preseason camp media availability is on Wednesday afternoon. >Goodwin added that it was "great news" to hear that Thomas' injury was not a season-ending one. The fifth-year defensive end is in a "good, positive state" now after being "down a little bit" after his initial injury Saturday, Goodwin said. "Life is tough and unfair at times," Goodwin said, "but he's in a great mental state right now and he's very positive and really excited to get back to where he was." Thomas' injury occurred on Aug. 13. A month-long recovery would put him on track to play in Clemson's third game of the season, a home matchup with Louisiana Tech on Sept. 17, after missing the remainder of preseason camp and the program's first two games at Georgia Tech on Sept. 5 and home against Furman on Sept. 10. - The State

rSr/2024 DE Xavier Thomas, Clemson
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  2022 PRESEASON ROTARY LOMBARDI AWARD WATCHLIST: Jordan McFadden, Clemson, Rs Sr OT,...True technician who enters his third year as a starter in 2022 having played 1,971 career snaps over 42 career games (25 starts). - Clemson Football

rSr/2023 OG Jordan McFadden, Clemson
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  Clemson starting defensive end Xavier Thomas will miss up to six weeks with a foot injury suffered over the weekend. Defensive coordinator Wes Goodwin said Monday that Thomas, a 6-foot-5, 265-pound fifth-year lineman, will need surgery. Thomas hurt himself during a scrimmage Saturday and tweeted afterward: "Small thing to a GIANT. The work does not stop! Ill be right back." A Clemson spokesman said in a text to The Associated Press that he didn't know if Thomas injured his right or left foot. Thomas had 27 tackles, including 3 1/2 sacks and two forced fumbles in 12 games last season, 10 of them starts. Thomas, who is from Florence, South Carolina, has started 19 games in his Clemson career, with 112 tackles and 12 1/2 sacks. - AP College Football

rSr/2024 DE Xavier Thomas, Clemson
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  One of Clemson football's top defensive linemen suffered an injury during the program's Saturday scrimmage, according to multiple media outlets. The Clemson Insider and Clemson Sports, citing sources, reported that fifth-year defensive end Xavier Thomas limped off the field Saturday with an injury. Thomas later left Memorial Stadium on a golf cart with a trainer by his side. "Life really isn't fair man. It really isn't," Thomas tweeted at 1:29 p.m. Saturday, adding in a follow-up tweet with a heart emoji: "Small thing to a GIANT. The work does not stop! (I'll) be right back. God got the kid." Clemson had no immediate update on Thomas' status or immediate timeline for providing an update, a team spokesperson told The State on Saturday. After battling injuries and lingering coronavirus symptoms over the past three seasons, Thomas, the No. 3 overall recruit in his high school class, was primed for a big 2022 with the Tigers. The starting defensive end entered preseason camp at 6-foot-2 and 254 pounds; he also tweeted last month he was down to 15% body fat, the lowest since his 2018 true freshman season. - The State

rSr/2024 DE Xavier Thomas, Clemson
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  Don't ask Barrett Carter how many positions he'll play this season because, honestly, he doesn't know. His personal assessment of where he stands on the Clemson defense: "They say I'm a linebacker right now..." It's a good problem to have for both parties, though. Carter will likely triple his freshman season snap count, and Clemson will have another switchable defender. Whether it's at linebacker or nickel, the speedy Carter has a chance to emerge as one of the Tigers' most vital players behind a stacked defensive line. The former five-star recruit and No. 33 player in the class of 2021 has already flashed some talent in big games, too. In his first career start at No. 23 Pittsburgh last year, Carter had five tackles and pass breakup. - The State

Sr/2025 ILB Barrett Carter, Clemson
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