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Venables loves the maturity, discipline of his Clemson defense

CLEMSON – Brent Venables’ defense has been dominant during August camp and he sees a group of players who have grown up over the last two seasons.

The Tigers boasted one of the nation’s top defensive groups in 2018, led by the Power Rangers and an assortment of stars across the board. Venables used Isaiah Simmons to perfection in 2019, and he saw a young group battle COVID and injuries in 2020. Now he’s seeing a mature group play clean football.

“It has been a good clean camp from a discipline standpoint and understanding just to be in a good competitive position,” Venables said after Thursday’s scrimmage.