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Re: Under Armour game announcers say Clemson class will

Jan 1, 2017, 3:15 PM

I personally look at attrition as a bad thing unless you're just plain carrying a lot of dead weight.

I myself just don't see the dead weight on Clemson's roster. We could maybe lose 1-2 QB's, but I'd personally hate to lose Kelly Bryant the athlete even if he doesn't win the starting gig because whether it is as a QB, a WR, a S, even an OLB, the guy is an NFL-caliber athlete somewhere.

We'll probably see a RB transfer, which means Oh My are we getting thin there now that Cordarrian Richardson looks to be ineligible. CJ Fuller and Feaster will almost certainly shoulder the load but are we going to have anyone behind those two? We need more RB's on the roster, not less.

We lose Mike Williams and probably Artavis Scott at WR to the NFL after the National Title Game. That stings. After that if you lose anybody you start wincing even more because these are blue-chip-type NFL talents pretty much across the board. I look at Cain, Renfrow, McCloud, Trevion Thompson, Cornell Powell, Diondre Overton, etc, and I see a bunch of guys who can legit aspire to play Sundays. A big part of what's made Clemson more dangerous this year is we're rolling 5-6 dangerous receivers at opponents all game long and it just flat-out grinds their legs off. Which is why you see plays late where it looks like, say, Deon Cain is just jogging past defenders, largely because he is. So who would you be willing to part with? These guys are talented, and even with Scott and Williams gone probably remain the big strength of the team.

I don't see a lot of dead weight at OL...especially if we lose a former blue chip like Jake Fruhmorgen. Love what Pollard is done but when 2 of your top 3 OT's are true froshes you don't have a lot of spare depth at tackle. We've got slightly better young depth inside with guys like Falcinelli, Mav Morris, John Simpson, Gage Cervanka and Noah Green waiting in the wings but you still wouldn't want to lose any of them because they're all either potential starters or at the very worst valuable-depth guys who wouldn't get you killed if they had to step in and start, and some - like Simpson - are probably upgrades over the long term once they develop a bit. Clemson had a problem with a lack of quality numbers, size, and bodies on the OL, now that we're passable on the OL the last thing you want is to start losing them.

Tight end? Garrett Williams is indispensable as a blocker. Milan Richard is still putting it together more than you'd like but he's an NFL talent if he does. Cannon Smith looks valuable at a big-bodied blocker/in-line tight end, and coaches are grooming Shadell Bell as a Brandon Ford, an off-the-line WR/TE tweener who does his damage down the field, and he's got an equivalent physical toolset to Ford. Again, not a lot of guys you'd just "cut".

You look at the defensive side, you see a lot more of same. A lot of quality, not a lot of dead weight.

Clemson is, at the end of the day, a young team - almost as young in fact as Ohio State, which was the least-experienced team in FBS coming into this year. We're losing some key guys to the draft; we are not losing a lot of guys. And I personally think that's a very good thing because it means there's not a lot of goats on the roster and Clemson's coaches did very well in evaluation.

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Under Armour game announcers say Clemson class will

are you saying that Dabo may be pulling a Spurrier

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Next year is a small class as well, 2019 will be a big class

so you are saying we may need to sign 48-50 in 2019 in order

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As long as the small classes add up to 85, then you are

Re: Under Armour game announcers say Clemson class will

We have 14 spots only if DW4 AND AS3 both leave early.

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Wow some of you.....

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