When Deshaun Watson came to Clemson three years ago, the coaching staff felt like Watson had the chance to be pretty special. However, they did not assume anything.
Instead, they let him go compete against senior Cole Stoudt and redshirt sophomore Chad Kelly to see how he would do. So Watson fell in line and went to work.
“We thought Deshaun was going to be pretty good, but he had some developing to do physically and all of that,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said. “All you can do is go through the process and evaluate. There is so much that goes into it.