The first time Dabo Swinney met Tyler Davis, he looked at him and said, “Baby Dex! Yeah!”
At the time, Davis laughed it off and thought it was pretty funny being compared to former Clemson great Dexter Lawrence. However, the nickname stuck.
“He says I have a lot of his mannerisms and we do look alike. I have a little bit of his hair,” Davis said with a smile.
Most everyone inside the football program calls Davis “Baby Dex” now, though he wasn’t really a fan of it.
“I did not really like it at first.