Deshaun Watson grew up less than an hour away from the University of Georgia, yet, astonishingly, the Bulldogs were late to catch on to him.
Clemson offered the spring after Watson's freshman year. He committed to the Tigers in 2012. It was not until one year later that Georgia offered the rising star. By then, it was too late. Watson says the staff did not put on the hard sell until his senior year.
“I had my mind made up I was going to Clemson,” Watson said recently. “I was enrolling early, so I didn’t want to do any changes.