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Hunter Renfrow vs. Alabama: Stats, Highlights and Twitter Reaction

Clemson Tigers wide receiver Hunter Renfrow came into Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship Game with three receiving touchdowns on the season.

He was already close to matching that total after one quarter of play Monday.

The redshirt freshman caught both of Deshaun Watson's first-quarter touchdown passes, propelling the ACC champs to a 14-7 lead over the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Watson has received most of the praise as the star quarterback and Heisman Trophy finalist of the only undefeated team left in college football, but through the first quarter of play, as Ben Cohen of the Wall Street Journal noted, Renfrow was the hero:

This guy is the early hero of the national championship.