Remember when Clelin Ferrell was rough around the edges and had no experience? Remember when Dexter Lawrence was a little ole freshman. Remember when Austin Bryant barely played because of an injury?
This is what Clemson’s defensive line looked like in 2016 … the year the Tigers won the program its first national championship since 1981.
Of course Clemson had different strengths and different leaders that year. The offense returned all of its firepower and had the best quarterback the school, or the ACC for that matter, has seen in quite some time in two-time Heisman Trophy Finalist Deshaun Watson.