Last year, Justyn Ross was lost for the season before summer break even hit and Joseph Ngata and Frank Ladson could not stay out of the injury tent. That left the Tigers’ passing attack in the hands of 5-foot-10, 210-pound Amari Rodgers and 6-foot, 210-pound Cornell Powell.
“We were small last year,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said this past spring.
Though Rodgers was a first team All-ACC receiver and Powell was named to the third team, Clemson’s passing game was not the same. The Tigers did not have that true go-up-and-get-it kind of receiver until freshman E.