One Clemson commit got his season off to a hot start on Thursday night. Four-star wideout Naeem Burroughs caught three passes for 91 yards, including a dazzling 52-yard catch and run touchdown as he helped lead The Bolles School to a season-opening 31-15 win over Monarch on Thursday night.

No. 4 Clemson was already facing a tremendous amount of pressure going into their Week 1 matchup against the No. 9 LSU Tigers. That now intensifies with Rivals’ Steve Wiltfong reporting that Dobson will be in attendance for a game-day visit.

The Clemson Tigers are loaded with players who battled through relatively tough times the last two seasons to make a run at another national championship.

Speaking on the Gramlich & Mac Lain podcast, the Tigers ’ head coach confirmed that Randall, now a senior, is the frontrunner at running back.

Clemson alum Sheridan Jones has found a new competitive arena as a tire changer for NASCAR’s Team Penske. He visited with the Tigers this week, along with one of the sport’s top drivers.

Summer League TigersCLEMSON, S.C. - Eight returning Tigers from the 2025 team played in various summer leagues after the 2025 season, including catcher Ty Marshall, who was a Coastal Plain League All-Star with Lexington County,

Cade Klubnik’s high school career was straight out of a Hallmark sports movie. He was a five-star recruit and the No. 1 QB in the country. He led Austin’s Westlake High School to back-to-back state championships in Texas’ biggest and toughest prep football classification, 6A. He was 27-0 as a starting quarterback. 27-0.

Senior quarterback Cade Klubnik, junior wide receiver Antonio Williams, and sophomore wide receiver Bryant Wesco Jr. cracked the offensive team while junior cornerback Avieon Terrell and Clemson’s two-headed monster on the defensive line – Peter Woods and T.J. Parker – headlined the defense.

The son of former Clemson defensive coordinator and current Oklahoma coach Brent Venables, the veteran Tiger has fully embraced the “super super senior” role that comes with a career like his, which has spanned five years and 50 games and leads to a lot of loving jabs from teammates.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Senior Nathan Richmond and sophomore Ransford Gyan provided No. 9 Clemson with its first two goals of the 2025 season, as the Tigers (0-0-1) and No. 11 Indiana Hoosiers (0-0-1) battled to a 2-2 draw to open the season.

After a string of high-profile misses, the Clemson Tigers have seen its 2026 recruiting class begin to fall in the national rankings.