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Kelly Fact: Has 77 career receptions, tied for third among active ACC players.
Years Lettered: 2005,06
Years Starter: 2005,06
Bowl Participation: Starting wide receiver in the 2005 Champs Sports Bowl against Colorado; reserve wide receiver in the 2006 Music City Bowl against Kentucky.
Fall 2007 Depth Chart Position: First-team wide receiver
Overview: Tied for third among active ACC players in career receptions with 77...has 930 career receiving yards, seventh among active ACC players...has five career touchdown receptions, tied for seventh among active ACC players...first-team wide receiver who hopes to carry over his Music City Bowl performance to the 2007 season...has 77 career receptions, 21st-most in school history...needs just 70 receiving yards to reach 1,000 for his career and 23 catches to reach 100...has at least one reception in 24 of the last 25 games...did not return a punt or kickoff in 2006, but handled those chores during parts of 2005...has started nine games in his career...Clemson Academic Honor Roll member for the fall semester of 2006...named most improved among wideouts for the 2007 spring practice...his 36" vertical jump is seventh-best on the team...his 9"10" broad jump is tied for seventh-best on the team...had a reception in every game in 2005, the only freshman in Tiger history to earn that distinction...his 47 catches in 2005 were second-most by a Tiger freshman in history...second on the team in receptions and reception yards in 2005...top freshman wideout in the ACC in terms of receptions and second among freshmen in receiving yards...has 10 catches for 102 yards in his two bowl-game appearances...had six catches for 89 yards and a touchdown for the victorious Orange team in the 2007 spring game.
2006: Clemson's top wideout in the Music City Bowl with six catches for 66 yards and a touchdown; he made a leaping catch in the corner of the endzone for Clemson's last touchdown...second-leading wideout on the team behind Chansi Stuckey, the second straight year he was #2 on the team in receptions behind the First-Team All-ACC wideout...had 30 catches; his stats in the Kentucky game were his best of the year...had five catches for 51 yards at #9 Florida State...had at least one catch in every game but the Louisiana Tech contest...had touchdown catches against Florida Atlantic, Wake Forest, and Kentucky; the Wake Forest game was his most productive game in terms of yardage, as he had five catches for 91 yards and a score; the touchdown tied the score 17-17 in the fourth quarter.
2005: Second on the team in receptions (47) and reception yards (575) as a freshman; his reception-yardage total was ninth-best in ACC history for a freshman; just 110 yards short of the Clemson freshman record...ACC All-Freshman team by Sporting News...top freshman receiver in the ACC in receptions and second among freshmen in receiving yards...ninth in the ACC in receptions per game (3.9)...13th in the ACC in receiving yards per game (47.9)...had 155 receiving yards against Temple, the third-highest total by an ACC player and most by a Tiger freshman in history; he added seven receptions and a touchdown...second on the team in plays (440) among freshmen, including first among freshman offensive players...led the team in kickoff return average and yardage...third on the team in all-purpose yards (849)...played at least 29 snaps in every game even though he started just four games...had at least one reception in every game, becoming the first freshman in Tiger history to have at least one in every game; in fact, he had at least two catches in every game...his 47 receptions were second most in Clemson history for a freshman...had exactly four catches in each of the first three games...had five catches for 38 yards in a starting assignment against #25 Boston College...had five catches for 81 yards...had just two receptions for 13 yards against #16 Florida State, but one was a diving grab in the corner of the endzone that was changed to a catch after a review...had five catches for 68 yards at #19 South Carolina...contributed on kickoff returns over the last five games; he had a 26.6-yard average on 10 returns...had a team-season-long 81-yard kickoff return at Georgia Tech...had four catches for 36 yards against Colorado; he had two kickoff returns for 37 yards and two punt returns for seven yards for 80 all-purpose yards.
2004: Red-shirted.
Before Clemson: Had 55 catches for 955 yards and 17 scores as a senior at Walton High...averaged 19 yards on punt returns and had 1,591 all-purpose yards as a senior...lettered three times in football and twice in basketball...AAAAA First-Team All-State as a senior...first-team All-Cobb County...Cobb County Player-of-the-Year by the Cobb County Touchdown Club and Marietta Daily Journal...his team had an 11-1 record and won the region title; the team ended the regular season 10-0, its first undefeated regular season in history...coached by Ed Dudley...chose Clemson over Duke, N.C. State, and Wake Forest...born Aaron Galen Kelly on Apr. 2, 1986...majoring in management.
