Clemson not only lost All-American players on the football field in Christian Wilkins, Clelin Ferrell, Austin Bryant and Mitch Hyatt, but it also lost their leadership in the locker room, away from the Allen Reeves Football Complex and in everyday life.
“It is critical. I think the two most underrated things on any team is chemistry and leadership. It is as simple as that,” head coach Dabo Swinney said Wednesday after the Tigers opened spring practice. “It is easy to look at a roster and see talent, experience and all of these things. Leadership and chemistry, it is not as easy to see that.