Clemson tight end Braden Galloway could tell while working out with Xavier Thomas in South Carolina over the summer that his teammate and close friend wasn’t feeling up to snuff.
Thomas, the talented junior defensive end and former five-star prospect, contracted the coronavirus after the Tigers’ football team departed campus for spring break in March. Then, as Clemson was getting ready to start summer workouts back on campus, Thomas suffered another setback when he came down with strep throat.
“Xavier’s my boy,” Galloway said after Clemson’s practice Tuesday. “We worked out together over the summer in Florence.