A panel of ESPN college football reporters ranked the top 10 defensive backs for the 2025 season, and Clemson’s Avieon Terrell earned a spot on the list.
Heading into his upcoming junior season, Terrell was picked as college football’s sixth-best defensive back, based on the voting in the ESPN survey.
Terrell garnered 28 points, good for sixth place behind Oregon’s Dillon Thieneman (49 points), Indiana’s D’Angelo Ponds (52 points), Tennessee’s Jermod McCoy (54 points), Notre Dame’s Leonard Moore (66 points) and Ohio State’s Caleb Downs (90 points).
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