Boulware nearly didn’t play football

It’s hard to imagine Ben Boulware not playing football, but that nearly happened. In a strange way, it was the same accident that nearly prevented him from playing the game that led him to it.

When Clemson’s All-ACC linebacker was nine years old, he was involved in a nasty wreck while racing motocross. Ben suffered a compound fracture in one of his arms, and dirt got under his skin which led to an infection.

“I had all of these surgeries and it almost got amputated and it kind of freaked my mom out enough where she said, ‘Screw the whole motocross thing. We will do something a little more safer,” Ben said on ESPNU’s College Football Daily on Monday.

So Ben started to play football.

“I guess…