Raising Cain: Deon Cain working on his game, working on life

Cain is always willing to put in the extra workCLEMSON – Practice had just finished, and most of Clemson’s players laughed and joked as they made the short walk from the practice fields to the new football operations center, ready to grab a quick shower and leave the world of football behind. Not Deon Cain.

Cain grabbed fellow receivers Ray-Ray McCloud, Diondre Overton, Cornell Powell and Trevion Thompson and headed inside the indoor practice facility, where he enlisted a group of student managers to run the football JUGS machine.

The group caught pass after pass – one-handed, two-handed, facing forwards, facing backwards, back shoulder. There was a bit of good-natured ribbing and the group…