As Clemson was winding down the first part of spring drills last month, Dabo Swinney noticed all the cornerbacks wearing yellow jerseys.
A yellow jersey signifies when a player is injured and cannot participate in practice.
“I’m watching practice and we got all of these guys hurt and I just said, ‘DK get over there,’” Clemson’s head coach explained recently.
DK is the nickname for sophomore Derion Kendrick, who was playing wide receiver. At the time, the coaches had not spoken about moving Kendrick to cornerback, but they needed bodies on the field in the secondary and Kendrick made sense.