Clemson football: 5 Tiger signees that became busts

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Howard’s Rock protected and under surveillance with a field painted for the Spring game April 2. Similar to the fall football season in 2020, the Spring game will be limited to just under 19,000 fans, a combination of IPTAY donors and students. Any other tickets left will be $10 each, sold starting March 25. The band and spirit squads will populate the Hill.Spring Football Game Clemson University /

Clemson football has had some ridiculously talented athletes pass through the halls over the last 120 plus years and 2021 will be no different.

Since Dabo Swinney was hired officially to take the reins of Clemson football, the talent that he and his staff have been able to accumulate has been mind-blowing. They have been able to win six straight ACC titles, appear in six straight College Football Playoff series, and play for four of the last six national title games.

Clemson football is showing no signs of slowing down.

That said, over the last 20 years, there have been some pretty big misses by both Dabo Swinney and former head coach Tommy Bowden. For a lot of mixed reasons some highly talented guys simply never lived up to the expectations they had when they arrived on campus.

Injuries, accidents, development, and a lot of other reasons these five guys never lived up to the recruiting that they garnered as they made the transition from high school to the confines of Death Valley.

Please understand that this list is from a football standpoint only and is not reflective of who they are as individuals. There are people who seem to twist the football player and person into one and that is simply not the case.

Football is what they played, not who they were or who they are.

All of these young men represented Clemson the very best way possible when they were part of the program and most of them continue to do so after they put the Clemson uniform on one last time.

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