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Swinney: ‘If we cancel football, the virus is not going to go away’

On Sunday night, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence made a statement on Twitter that as players they are safer playing football at Clemson than they would be going back home should the football season were canceled.

Following Monday’s practice at the Allen Reeves Football Complex in Clemson, Swinney confirmed Lawrence’s statement, saying Clemson is the safest environment for his players without a doubt, as opposed to letting them leave and go home and be in environments where they are not tested every single week for COVID-19.

“They don’t have the type of sanitize environment that we have here,” Swinney said.