Moments before Clemson was set to open the 2016 season at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium, an Auburn reporter walked up to then Tigers’ wide receiver Mike Williams and began asking him questions.
At the time, Williams was in the middle of warmups.
“He asked him questions about ‘How are you feeling mentally right now about your neck?’” recalled Tyler Grisham, who was an offensive analyst on Clemson’s staff at the time.
The incident made Grisham mad. The Auburn game was Williams’ first time back since suffering a serious neck injury the year before when he ran into the goal post in the Wofford game and fractured his neck.