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Five Clemson Tigers Turn Pro

CAN PROGRAM RELOAD AS IT HAS DONE IN THE PAST? Five members of the Clemson University football team – which narrowly lost this year’s national championship game to Alabama – have decided to forego their remaining college eligibility and enter the 2016 National Football League Draft. Junior safety Jayron Kearse,…

CAN PROGRAM RELOAD AS IT HAS DONE IN THE PAST?

Five members of the Clemson University football team – which narrowly lost this year’s national championship game to Alabama – have decided to forego their remaining college eligibility and enter the 2016 National Football League Draft.

Junior safety Jayron Kearse, sophomore cornerback MacKensie Alexander, junior defensive end Shaq Lawson, junior defensive end Kevin Dodd and junior safety T.J. Green all declared their intention to enter the draft this week.  Meanwhile four draft-eligible Tigers – sophomore tailback Wayne Gallman, junior defensive tackle Carlos Watkins, junior tight end Jordan Leggett and junior cornerback Cordrea Tankersley – announced their intention to return to Clemson next year.

Alexander and Lawson are likely to be selected early in the first round, perhaps as top ten picks.  Dodd is likely to go early in the second round.

While Clemson is losing five defensive starters, head coach Dabo Swinney‘s team has been here before.  This is the same team that survived losing a pair of first round NFL draft picks last year – and still produced the No. 2 defense in the country.

Can they do it again in 2016?

Clemson’s current recruiting class is ranked No. 9 in the nation, according to 247 Sports and No. 11 according to ESPN.  The Tigers’ haul includes five-star defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence, a 6-foot-4, 327-pound defensive tackle who is one of the five top high school players in the entire country.

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36 comments

Tom January 18, 2016 at 4:08 pm

Good for them. Its the smart thing to do. You can always go to college. You can’t always play professional football. Strike while the iron is hot and you are injury free.

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Slartibartfast January 18, 2016 at 8:15 pm

Amen. And remember, plumbers make more than non-admin college professors, and it is logical that this should be so.

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Mom January 19, 2016 at 12:33 pm

Yeah but professors don’t have to plod through excrement to earn a living.

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Not true, January 19, 2016 at 12:46 pm

I’ve been on Clemson’s campus

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Slartibartfast January 19, 2016 at 8:40 pm

Well said!

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Best of luck January 18, 2016 at 4:42 pm

As a Gamecock, I wish them good luck in the NFL

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TontoBubbaGoldstein January 18, 2016 at 7:53 pm

As a Gamecock, I wish them good luck in the NFL

TBG felt the same way when Connor Shaw and Alshon Jeffrey turned pro… : )

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Rocky Verdad January 18, 2016 at 5:49 pm

Repeat? Guess not!!!

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haley4amnesty January 18, 2016 at 7:11 pm

See.This tells me you know NOTHING about athletics,NERD. Ohio State will have 15 players drafted-7 in the 1st round-and be one of the top 3 teams in the country next year.

Clemson will be ok as long as the qb stays (QUARTERBACK for a NON American like you).

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Squishy123 January 18, 2016 at 6:33 pm

Meanwhile 5 Dirtpeckers will forego their senior year and filled out applications with BP and Shell gas stations.

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Squishy123 January 18, 2016 at 6:50 pm

I must troll, I have nothing else to do!

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Scooter January 19, 2016 at 10:57 am

Meanwhile Squishy’s mom will be hanging out at the BP and Shell gas stations looking for a date (or 5)

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Squishy123 January 19, 2016 at 11:50 am

She says your dad is her favorite customer, little dick and a premature ejaculator. Easy Money as she calls him.

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Scooter January 19, 2016 at 12:11 pm

That actually still sounds worse for your mommy. Good try though Jr.

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Squishy123 January 19, 2016 at 1:06 pm

Your dad says he’s going to divorce your mom and he doesn’t give a shit about the “little bastard” (apparently talking about you) since he wasn’t your father anyway… some story about the neighborhood teen boys and him being at work. He keeps calling your mother, “that whore”.

Scooter January 19, 2016 at 1:09 pm

So you’re now trying to pass your own story off as mine? dude weak man, just weak

Squishy123 January 19, 2016 at 1:09 pm

Mine was better, and more likely the truth than yours is.

Scooter January 19, 2016 at 1:11 pm

What’s the matter buttercup? Are you still having a hard time being underdeveloped since your mommy was smoking crack rock and black cock while pregnant with you?

Squishy123 January 19, 2016 at 1:12 pm

So was the guy you call “dad”, even though he hates it when you do.

Scooter January 19, 2016 at 1:15 pm

aww just bouncing an old joke back off me? Your reaching Jr. By the way you also once said you would never get into a back and forth banter with me, yet here you are doing it again. I guess when you are raised by a lying crack whore you get used to not telling the truth yourself huh? Anything to take your mind off of what your wife is really doing now with the trash man while you are working for USC.

Squishy123 January 19, 2016 at 1:24 pm

I guess I don’t recall ever saying that, I guess I don’t remember such a rivitting conversation the way you do.

Well it is trash pickup day today… and they do offer great service at my house.

Scooter January 19, 2016 at 1:26 pm

Oh joy! He is still talking to me. I kind of feel as special as you are. Well maybe not as much, seeing as how you are special to be the one crack baby your mom didn’t abort. That’s a hard kind of special to beat.

Squishy123 January 19, 2016 at 3:43 pm

And you’re still responding, if you didn’t want to hear from me you’d ignore me… but that would mean nobody talking to you which would get those voices in your head talking again.

Scooter January 19, 2016 at 7:26 pm

No no no no, you’re confused. Those arent voices in my head, those are voices you heard from the other room while your mom gave me head.

And if it wasn’t for me replying to you, no one would ever read the shit you put on here. You get no up votes or other comments from anyone on here. No one gives a damn what you actually write. You are a joke to them.

Squishy123 January 19, 2016 at 7:30 pm

And the responses continue. Come clean, you enjoy it… you’re the only one reading and replying.

BTW – There are a total of 10 up votes on this article, not one is for a Scooter response.

Scooter January 19, 2016 at 10:10 pm

And not one is for you. Face it unlike your mommy I’m all you have

Squishy123 January 20, 2016 at 10:46 am

Maybe I should create another account… perhaps SCfan7314 and up vote my posts too.

Scooter January 20, 2016 at 12:14 pm

What are you babbling about now idiot? I know your moms breast milk had crack in it but you yap a lot even for someone jacked up on the smack.

Squishy123 January 20, 2016 at 2:52 pm

“What are you babbling about now idiot?”

Was that one of your dad’s favorite sayings when talking to you?

Scooter January 20, 2016 at 4:55 pm

So sad when you repeat the same joke. Now tell your wife I’ll be there in an hour and she should stretch, and possibly take an Advil in advance. Its going to be a lot bigger than what she is used to and she will be sore.

Squishy123 January 20, 2016 at 8:31 pm

If it’s a good one, it’s worth repeating.

She says you’re not all that big, she just tells you that because you typically come over all depressed.

Scooter January 20, 2016 at 9:53 pm

Again it appears you misunderstand, well I was inside her mouth when she told you over the phone. It wasn’t “come over all depressed”, that was “cum all over her dress”.

Squishy123 January 21, 2016 at 12:23 pm

Well aren’t we Milton Burle reincarnated… if you’re going to steal jokes at least cite the source.

ClemsonGrad January 19, 2016 at 12:31 pm

Sorry Shamecocks, Muschamp’s recruitment can’t compete with that.

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gov'treared January 19, 2016 at 3:09 pm

6’4 327 lbs. jesus this guys only jobs . eat and shit

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