CLEMSON – Nick Eason looked down at his phone and saw that Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney was calling, and it scared him enough that he almost didn’t answer. Now he’s glad he did.
Eason was the defensive line coach for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2019 and 2020 and spent the 2021 season with Auburn. When former defensive tackles coach Todd Bates left Clemson to go with Brent Venables to Oklahoma in early January, Swinney didn’t waste time in calling Eason and offering him the job as the Tigers’ defensive run game coordinator and tackles coach.