Clemson co-offensive coordinator Tony Elliott looks ahead to Clemson's spring football game. By
This time last year, Tony Elliott was dealing with different set of challenges.
Sure, the Clemson co-offensive coordinator was tasked with figuring out a quarterback situation between Trevor Lawrence and Kelly Bryant, but he was also fixing the scoring side of the ball’s biggest weakness: lack of big plays.
The Tigers were able to keep the chains moving at a winnable pace in 2017, but they ranked 59th nationally in plays of 20-plus yards.
By the end of 2018, the national champions had more plays go that distance than everybody in FBS not named Oklahoma.