CLEMSON – Dabo Swinney likes Tanner Tessmann so much he offered the soccer player a football scholarship even though the recruit didn’t play a down of high school football.
Tessmann is a 6-3, 200-pounder who has been at the FC Dallas Developmental Academy since he was in eighth grade. He also calls Swinney “Uncle Bo” because his dad, P.J. Tessman, is a lifelong friend of Swinneys who not only lives in Swinney’s old house in Clemson, but he also runs the All In Foundation.
Tessmann will play both sports at Clemson. In high school, he was a central midfielder who was ranked as the 9th-best player at that position and the 23rd best player overall by Top Drawer Soccer.