CLEMSON, S.C. -- Now we know the real reason Clemson All-America defensive tackle Christian Wilkins decided to return to school for his senior season.
He wanted a stiffer challenge. He wanted to teach kindergarten.
Wilkins, chuckling at the thought, isn’t quite ready to go there, but he does have a new outlook on school teachers. That’s because Wilkins has been moonlighting as a substitute teacher the past few weeks and even dared to fill in one day in a pre-kindergarten and kindergarten class at James M. Brown Elementary School in Walhalla, South Carolina.