Clemson football’s 2019 spring game featured a squad that looked loaded yet again with a roster packed with some of the best players in the country.
Roughly 60,000 fans piled into Memorial Stadium to watch the Clemson spring game on Saturday, hoping to get a sense of what to expect out of the defending champs this upcoming season.
All in all, the Clemson spring game featured a Tigers’ squad who certainly looks like they’re going to be a top-five team again, a feat that’s largely due to their high caliber of coaching and consistency on the recruiting trail. Just like clockwork, Dabo Swinney and his staff have managed yet again to replace the elite players he lost to the NFL draft with players of equal or greater ability.
They appear to have depth at every position and quarterback is no exception. The biggest surprise of the afternoon would have to be the fact that Chase Brice outplayed Lawrence for the entire game.
Brice’s performance served as a heavy-handed reminder that there’s more than one star quarterback on the Clemson roster and while Lawrence struggled to find the endzone, his backup thrashed the opposing defense throughout most of the afternoon, setting the tone early on by marching down the length of the field on a 95-yard drive that he capped off with a touchdown pass.
Lawrence, on the other hand, appeared rusty at times, especially early on, with overthrown balls and a just having a generally difficult time moving the ball down the field. A combination of tenacious defense and accuracy problems led to the Heisman-hopeful throwing multiple interceptions in his losing effort against the Orange team.
What else did we learn from the Clemson spring game?