CLEMSON – Head Coach Dabo Swinney and his staff decided pretty quickly that Corian Gipson would not play his freshman year.
The Fort Worth, Texas, native joined Clemson’s 2024 recruiting class as a four-star prospect and Top-100 player in the nation, but an ACL tear in his senior year of high school set the cornerback behind where he wanted to be.
“He was a guy early on that we were like, ‘Yeah, he ain’t playing,’” Swinney said. “ He ain’t ready to play. We just gotta get him back where he’s got a good foundation, because he didn’t play his senior year, got hurt early, so it’s really two years since he’s played football.