CLEMSON — Clemson’s secondary received an extreme makeover through the transfer portal.
Having lost starting corner Avieon Terrell to the NFL Draft, and starting safeties Khalil Barnes and Ricardo Jones to the transfer portal, the Tigers had several holes on the backend that needed to be filled.
Over the first few days of the portal window, Clemson was extremely active in filling those holes, adding four key pieces to the secondary fairly quickly. Two at safety and two at cornerback, with head coach Dabo Swinney noting the staff hit on their top targets.
“We got our top two safeties,” Swinney said.