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Like Kyle Parker before him, Taylor is a baller

Deciding to go to college or accept a big pay day from the Major Leagues is not an easy decision.

If you do not believe me, then ask Clemson’s Will Taylor. The Tigers’ do-everything-player turned down seven figures from Major League Baseball teams this past July for the college experience at Clemson.

On draft night, there were a lot of phone calls being made and coming in.

“There were a lot of decisions happening real quick. Within five, ten, fifteen minutes,” Taylor said. “But we kinda had an idea of what it was going to look like a little bit before, so we just kind of … had certain situations we kind of gone through the night before, but it all worked out.