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Lyn-J Dixon makes hard decision to stay at Clemson, battle for playing time

CLEMSON – The easiest thing for Lyn-J Dixon to have done would have been to pack up his bags, enter the transfer portal and wait for other college football programs to come calling. Dixon didn’t take the easy way out, and that pleases Tony Elliott.

Dixon has spent the last two seasons as the backup to Travis Etienne and enters 2020 with 1,182 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns on 166 career attempts and 162 yards on 15 catches in 389 career snaps over 28 games. He plays his junior season ranked second in school history in yards per carry (7.