Clemson Football: Tigers with All-ACC potential for the 2019 season

Just as we’ve seen the past few seasons, Clemson football is expected to dominate the All-ACC teams when they’re released this summer.

The 2019 Clemson football team is expected to be one of the favorites to get back to the CFB Playoff. The Tigers are coming off a year in which they went 15-0 with an ACC Championship and an impressive 44-16 win over Alabama in the National Championship.

For obvious reasons, Clemson is the favorite to win the ACC Championship again. If the Tigers do go on to win the ACC this year, they will have won the conference for the fifth-straight season.

When there is a team that is strongly favored to win the conference, it’s clear that there are a lot of All-Conference level performers in the program, as well.

Here’s a look at the Clemson football players that have All-ACC potential on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball.

All-ACC Potential:

Offense…

We’ll start with the offensive side of the ball, where talent is loaded. The Tigers will have several clear first-team All-ACC talents led by QB Trevor Lawrence, RB Travis Etienne, WR Justyn Ross and WR Tee Higgins. I would also expect that OT Tremayne Anchrum and OG John Simpson are first-team All-ACC caliber players.

An argument could be made for Gage Cervenka on the first-team, as well. After that, you’ve got Sean Pollard and Derion Kendrick (depending on what position he plays). By the end of the season, I think Jackson Carman could emerge as a first-team All-ACC candidate and I think you could see one of the freshman wide receivers on the team at some point, as well.

Defense…

Defensively, the Tigers will not fill up the All-ACC team like they did last season, but there is certainly still plenty of talent to go around.

Isaiah Simmons, AJ Terrell and K’Von Wallace will all be on the preseason All-ACC team. I also think Xavier Thomas, Justin Foster, Nyles Pinckney and Tanner Muse all have potential to be on there. By the end of the season, it’s our expectation that Thomas will be the conference’s sack leader and that Pinckney could emerge as one of the best defensive tackles in the country.

There is plenty of talent on this Clemson football team and that’s going to be prevalent when All-ACC honors are given out both in the preseason and after the year has come to a close.