Venables enjoys watching his young, but talented safeties

Brent Venables has enjoyed what he has seen thus far in fall camp from his young safeties.

Clemson is having to replace both starting safeties from last year’s nationally ranked defense. Besides finding replacements for Tanner Muse and K’Von Wallace, he must also find a replacement for one of his top reserve safeties in Denzel Johnson.

With Muse and Wallace anchoring the backend of the defense down, Clemson had one of the best pass defenses in the country in 2019. The Tigers ranked fourth nationally in passing defense, as they allowed just 172.3 yards per game. Their 19 interceptions ranked third, while they ranked 10th in touchdown passes allowed. Opponents averaged just 6.0 yards per…