The Clemson Insider

One scholarship participant who didn’t journey with Clemson for Saturday’s recreation at North Carolina is junior linebacker Jamal Anderson.

Following the Tigers’ 38-10 win over the Tar Heels, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney defined why Anderson wasn’t on the journey roster and didn’t make the journey to Chapel Hill.

Swinney stated it was a coach’s choice and that the Tigers are planning to redshirt him with a view to give him a pair extra years.

“We’re going to try to hold him,” Swinney stated. “He’s a guy I met with him this spring, and we actually talked about – we hardly played him his freshman year, at all. We really kind of wasted a year, honestly. We talked this spring about, with him, that if it worked out, we would consider redshirting him. And where we were and where they feel like the linebackers are, we felt like we could try to hold him. So, that’s what we made the decision to do with him.”

Anderson performed in every of Clemson’s first 4 video games this season, logging 10 snaps within the season opener vs. LSU earlier than beginning the Troy recreation and taking part in 25 snaps. He then performed 12 snaps at Georgia Tech and only one snap vs. Syracuse.

The 6-foot-3, 225-pounder recorded three tackles (one for loss) vs. LSU, added one other three tackles vs. Troy, was credited with a deal with for loss at Georgia Tech, and made one deal with vs. Syracuse.

An NFL legacy because the son of former NFL working again Jamal Anderson, the youthful Anderson entered this season credited with 15 tackles (one for loss), one sack, a blocked punt and 123 defensive snaps over 27 profession video games (one begin) from 2023-24.

A former four-star prospect within the 2023 recruiting class from Mill Creek High School in Georgia, Anderson was ranked because the No. 128 total participant within the nation by ESPN.com, which additionally listed him because the No. 8 participant in Georgia and the Twelfth-best exterior linebacker within the nation.