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It’s time to get back to playing football

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney liked the job his former players did in Clemson’s Pro Day on Thursday, and now he is glad they can get back to being football players again.

In all, 14 former Tigers worked out in front of 100 or so NFL scouts, general managers and coaches on Thursday at the Poe Indoor Practice Facility in Clemson. Swinney said most of the stuff that comes out of pro day and at the NFL Combine is irrelevant in his mind.

“It’s kind of like the SAT and the ACT,” he said. “I have been around some people that had unbelievable ACTs and did not do well in school and some people that did terrible, that did great.