True freshman running back Demarkcus Bowman is going through his first fall camp at Clemson after enrolling this summer, and through the first several practices, the former five-star prospect looks precisely like the player the Tigers thought they were getting when he signed with the program back in December.
“Demarkcus is as advertised running the football,” offensive coordinator Tony Elliott told reporters via Zoom on Tuesday evening. “He’s got the juice to his legs. He can really, really go.”
As good as he has looked in the run game, Bowman is facing a learning curve as far as acclimating himself to Clemson’s no-huddle, up-tempo offense, considering he played in a very different system at Lakeland (Fla.