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Clemson hopes to bring excitement back - Tigers one of the nation's worst when it came to returning punts last year

Remember when C.J. Spiller and Jacoby Ford took a punt, made one guy miss and then were off to the races? Remember when Justin Miller, Derrick Hamilton and Brian Mance were some of the top punt return specialist in the ACC?

Remember Donnell Woolford, Darnell Stephens and Robert O’Neal back in the day? They brought excitement on every Clemson punt return from 1986-‘92. But those days have since left Clemson.

In Spiller’s senior year, the Tigers averaged 14.4 yards per return and then a respectable 11.0 in 2010. But since then their best average came in 2013 when they averaged 8.