Clemson football: Who will be the number two wide receiver?
Clemson football has been coined “WRU” over the last ten years.
Elite wide receivers and Clemson football go together like peanut butter and jelly. One is synonymous with the other. It is odd that we have zero ideas who the number two receiver on this roster is heading into this week’s matchup with Citadel.
With the loss of Justyn Ross for 2020 back in June, the Tigers had no worry that they would be able to replace him with loads of talent at the receiver on the roster. However, after fall camp and a week one game against Wake Forest, we still have no idea who on this roster is going to step up.
Right now, all signs point to Joseph Ngata but he didn’t assert himself last week. His backup Frank Ladson has underwhelmed since he arrived on campus and Cornell Powell is a great story and a great young man, but there is a reason that he has just 344 total yards receiving since he arrived on campus in 2016.
If we are being honest, he had a great first scrimmage a month ago but Ngata, Ladson, and Rodgers were all out.
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Clemson football has enough weapons to be elite if everyone lives up to their potential.
Tight end Braden Galloway is by far one of the best playmakers on the offense and will finish among the top three pass catchers in 2020, but he isn’t a wide receiver.
At some point, Frank Ladson, E.J. Williams, Ajou Ajou, or Cornell Powell have to step up and take the number two receiver spot by the horns so that Clemson football offense can live up to their potential offensively.
While everyone was mesmerized last week by the numbers, the fact is, of the six incompletions that Trevor Lawrence had in week one, most of them were dropped balls by guys fighting for that number two spot.
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While the Tigers won’t need someone this week, as the play nine straight ACC games against teams that are much better than they were in 2019, they will need one of these young talented receivers to show what former receivers coach Jeff Scott and current position coach Tyler Grisham saw in them to believe that they were special enough to wear the orange and purple every week.