The game is starting to slow down for defensive end K.J. Henry.
Now in his third year in the Clemson program, the 6-foot-4, 250-pound defensive end says he understands his role a lot better. He is more confident in what he is doing. He is starting to read different things and reacting much faster to what offenses are doing.
“I have grown with my [football] IQ,” he said. “That has been the great part.”
After redshirting in 2018, Henry said everything was coming at him fast last spring. Each play and each rep was fast, so he spent a lot of time absorbing the information, trying to understand what he was supposed to do on each play, as opposed to reacting to what the offense was doing.