Clemson Football: Three questions about the wide receivers

Can the Clemson Football wide receivers avoid injuries?

Injury has been the recurring word mentioned over and over. Collins, Randall & Stellato all missed time in 2022. All three appear to be healthy, or at the very least moving in the right direction, as the team approaches fall camp.

If you read the depth at wide receiver on the first page, you might have noticed there were only two players with experience: Spector and Stellato. Everyone else in the room will be a true freshman.

Of those four freshmen, only Johnson was an early enrollee. Kelley isn’t even listed as a receiver on the roster yet. His designation is ‘athlete’, though most insiders have indicated he will likely start at receiver.

If the injury bug bites this group again, the Tigers will be relying on players who don’t have experience. That worked out for Collins in 2021. Several people are high on Johnson.

The best-case scenario is that Clemson can avoid the injuries and they won’t need to find out which freshmen are ready to play right away.

Honorable mention: What walk-on wide receiver has the best name?

There are some good ones.

• Hamp Greene
• Davian Sullivan
• Hampton Earle
• Michael Mankaka

I am going with my favorite: Clover, South Carolina’s very own Blackmon Huckabee Jr.

It is my sincerest hope that Huckabee catches a touchdown pass in 2023.