CLEMSON — Heading into the season, one of the few question marks for No. 4 Clemson comes in the secondary, in particular at safety.
This is the area where the Tigers have to replace R.J. Mickens, one of their best players over the last four seasons. Mickens just wasn’t a safety — he was a football player.
He had one of the best football IQs on the Clemson team and it showed in his play. It is one of the reasons why the Los Angeles Chargers drafted him in last April’s NFL Draft.
However, the Tigers have to move on, and they are trying to do so with a group that head coach Dabo Swinney says is one of the deepest on the roster.