It is crazy how things work out.
Following Clemson’s loss to Alabama in the 2016 National Championship Game, Mackensie Alexander, Jayron Kearse, T.J. Green and Adrian Baker all left the team. Alexander, Kearse and Green all went to the NFL after their junior years, while Baker transferred.
“I had no idea those guys were leaving until after the game,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney recalled on his call-in show Monday night. “We were not recruiting DBs. Literally, after that game we went and got K’Von [Wallace], Isaiah Simmons, Trayvon Mullen, and Nolan Turner in a two-week span.