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Championship or bust? Clemson football must handle enormous expectations

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Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

For this team, the burden of massive expectations from the outside has come from all angles.

The conclusion of the 2025 NFL Draft brings the most recent example to focus. Plenty of "way too early" mock drafts for 2026 have sprung out from the results of the April weekend in Green Bay, and a bevy of Tigers have been pinned to first-round selections.

One mock draft even has Cade Klubnik going first in next year's draft to Cleveland, putting him with Trevor Lawrence as the only No.