The Clemson football team hosted its annual spring game Saturday afternoon. Here are our final offensive grades from the scrimmage.
The Clemson football team finished out its spring sessions with the annual Orange & White Spring Game Saturday afternoon.
As we continue to recap the scrimmage, let’s take a look back at our offensive grades for the afternoon.
We’ll begin with the Orange Team.
Orange Team Offense:
The Orange Team only mustered up 10 points and weren’t ever able to get into much of a rhythm. You expect stuff like that in a spring game, though.
Trevor Lawrence had a few really nice passes and we saw a lot more of what he is capable of doing by extending plays. Joseph Ngata, the mid-year enrollee, had a really nice sideline catch where Trevor Lawrence put the ball right on the money while rolling left. Ngata got both feet down in bounds.
Jackson Carman was another guy that I paid close attention to on the Orange Team. Carman had a pretty solid day. There were times where the defensive end was a step quicker than him, but he was able to recover with his long arms.
I expect Carman to continue to improve over the course of the summer and perhaps shed a few more pounds to become that great left tackle he is capable of being.
The running game wasn’t existent for the Orange Team, really at all. Part of that has to do with the mix-and-match nature of the offensive line. Neither Tavien Feaster nor Lyn-J Dixon got a whole lot of running room, so there weren’t many big gains in the rushing attack.
The Orange Team also turned the ball over three times.
Grade: C+
White Team Offense:
The White Team put up 30 points and did a great job breaking off a few big plays.
Chase Brice played a consistent game and was able to lead the team on a long drive for points to open up the game. Travis Etienne had a few decent rushes, but for the most part, he didn’t play too many snaps as to avoid injury.
Justyn Ross made a circus catch over Derion Kendrick in the game, which was certainly one of the highlights of the day.
The White Team offensive line was better in the interior- partly because they had both John Simpson and Gage Cervenka- and Tremayne Anchrum had a nice day, as well.
Grade: B
Overall, the offenses had a decent day. It’s tough to really gauge offense in a spring game because the teams are mixed-and-matched and because the coaches aren’t opening up the playbook. The Tigers have to feel good about what they have on the offensive end as I believe this offense could be the best in Clemson football history.