Clemson welcomed 15 members of its 2025 recruiting class on Wednesday upon the opening of the NCAA early signing period. The early signing period will conclude on Friday, Dec. 6 in advance of National Signing Day on Feb. 5, 2025.
Plant City, Fla. // Plant City HS
Electric dual-threat quarterback from the Sunshine State
Lynchburg, Va. // Liberty Christian Academy
Helped pave the way for high school teammate and fellow Clemson signee Gideon Davidson
Cincinnati, Ohio // St. Xavier HS
Physical presence who adds to Clemson’s recent run of offensive linemen from Ohio
Atlanta, Ga. // Lakeside HS
Disruptive interior defender who was one of Georgia’s most productive defensive tackles
Bluffton, S.C. // Savannah (Ga.) Christian Prep
NFL legacy and four-year varsity contributor from Georgia
Tampa, Fla. // Wiregrass Ranch HS
Tampa native ranked among the top centers in the 2025 recruiting class
Bronxville, N.Y. // Iona Prep
Prized prospect from New York set to join Clemson in the trenches
Alexandria, Va. // Hayfield Secondary
Virginia state record holder coming off of prolific prep career
Norfolk, Va. // Maury HS
Talented edge rusher out of the Tidewater region of Virginia
Belton, S.C. // Belton-Honea Path HS
Prolific local running back joining Clemson as an all-purpose athlete
Fyffe, Ala. // Fyffe HS
Two-way standout from Alabama set to contribute at linebacker at Clemson
Explosive national award-winner who was highly productive on Virginia state title teams
Jefferson, S.C. // South Florence HS
South Carolina native who joins Clemson as a top 100 prospect nationally
Milton, Ga. // Milton HS
Highly regarded offensive tackle who is the son of a punishing former NFL running back
Bennettsville, S.C. // Marlboro County HS
Versatile contributor during prep career in both North Carolina and South Carolina
HIGHLY RANKED ADDITIONS– Clemson’s class includes four members of the Rivals250: RB Gideon Davidson, LB Logan Anderson, DT Amare Adams and OL Brayden Jacobs.– Four members of the class were listed among On3’s Top 300: RB Gideon Davidson, DT Amare Adams, ATH Marquise Henderson and DE Ari Watford.– The group features four selections to the 247Sports Top247: DT Amare Adams, RB Gideon Davidson, DE Ari Watford and ATH Marquise Henderson.– The class includes four selections to the ESPN300: DT Amare Adams, RB Gideon Davidson, DE Ari Watford and ATH Marquise Henderson.– To date, every signing class in Dabo Swinney’s head coaching tenure except for its 2023 and 2024 classes have won at least one ACC Championship. Both of those classes can earn their first ACC title with a win against SMU in this Saturday’s ACC Championship Game.
BRING A FRIEND– With the additions of high school teammates Gideon Davidson and Easton Ware out of Liberty Christian Academy in Virginia, Clemson has signed at least one pair of high school teammates in six out of its last eight classes.
>> 2025: Liberty Christian (Va.) Academy (RB Gideon Davidson and OL Easton Ware)>> 2024: Our Lady of Good Counsel (Md.) HS (Darien Mayo and CJ Kubah-Taylor)>> 2023: N/A>> 2022: Greenville (S.C.) HS (Collin Sadler and Josh Sapp)>> 2021: Westlake (Ga.) HS (Dacari Collins and Nate Wiggins)>> 2020: N/A>> 2019: Archer (Ga.) HS (Andrew Booth Jr. and Jalyn Phillips)>> 2018: South Pointe (S.C.) HS (Derion Kendrick and B.T. Potter); IMG (Fla.) Academy (Mike Jones Jr. and Xavier Thomas)
NFL BLOODLINES– OL Brayden Jacobs is the son of two-time Super Bowl champion RB Brandon Jacobs.– TE Logan Brooking is the son of 15-year NFL linebacker Keith Brooking.– The elder Brooking spent 11 years with the Atlanta Falcons, where he was teammates with Jamal Anderson (father of current Clemson LB Jamal Anderson), OL Michael Thompson (father of current Clemson DT Champ Thompson) and TE Marcus Pollard (uncle of current Clemson DL Caden Story).
VA TO CU– Clemson signed four players from the state of Virginia: RB Gideon Davidson, WR Juju Preston, OL Easton Ware and DE Ari Watford.– Clemson’s four signees from Virginia mark the Tigers’ most in a single class since 1972 (four).– This year marks the first time in records back to 1972 that Virginia has led a Clemson recruiting class in signees.– Clemson has now signed at least one player from Virginia in six out of its last seven classes.– With the addition of Preston out of Alexandria, Va., Clemson has now signed at least one player from the greater Washington, D.C. area (including adjacent Maryland and Virginia counties) in six out of its last seven classes.
OH, HI, OHIO– Clemson’s signing of OL Tucker Kattus marks Clemson’s fourth signing from Ohio since 2017, all of which have come along Clemson’s offensive line.– Kattus becomes Clemson’s first Ohio signee since Blake Miller in 2022. Miller has since started every game Clemson has played since he arrived on campus.– Kattus is a product of St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, the same high school program that produced 2017 signee Matt Bockhorst. Bockhorst was a team captain who played 47 games with 20 starts for Clemson from 2017-21, helping the program to four ACC championships, four College Football Playoff berths, two National Championship Game appearances and one national title.
START SPREADING THE NEWS– Clemson’s signing of OL Rowan Byrne out of Iona Prep School and Bronxville, N.Y. represents Clemson’s first signing from New York since 2017 (OL Noah DeHond).– Byrne is Clemson’s fifth signee from New York in Dabo Swinney’s head coaching tenure.
FLORIDA-GEORGIA (ON THE DOTTED) LINE– Clemson added two players from the state of Florida: QB Chris Denson and OL Gavin Blanchard.– Clemson has signed 28 players from Florida in the last seven years. Clemson has now signed multiple players from Florida in seven straight classes for the first time on record back to 1972.– Clemson added three players from the state of Georgia: TE Logan Brooking, OL Brayden Jacobs and DT Makhi Williams-Lee.– Clemson’s 32 signees from Georgia since 2020 are its most from any state this decade.
CONNECTIONS– DE Ari Watford attended Maury High School in Norfolk, Va., which produced former Clemson CB Sheridan Jones.– OL Brayden Jacobs attended Georgia’s Milton High School, which produced current Clemson S Rob Billings.– QB Chris Denson is a native of Plant City, Fla., the hometown of current Clemson DE Cade Denhoff.
GEOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN– Members of Clemson’s signing class completed their prep careers across seven states: Virginia (four), Georgia (three), South Carolina (three), Florida (two), Alabama (one), Ohio (one) and New York (one).– This year’s class marks only the third time since 2015 that Clemson has signed players exclusively from states from which Dabo Swinney had previously signed at least one player. Other than drawing only from existing pipelines in the classes of 2021, 2023 and 2025, Swinney added at least one new state in eight cycles from 2015-25: Illinois in 2024; Utah in 2022; Kentucky in 2020; California, Michigan and Pennsylvania in 2019; Missouri in 2018; Indiana and Louisiana in 2017; Colorado, Kansas and Texas in 2016; and Massachusetts in 2015.– Since 1972, Clemson has signed student-athletes to football scholarships from 36 states, the District of Columbia and Canada.
POSITION BREAKDOWNQB: 1; RB: 1; WR: 1; TE: 1; OL: 5; DE: 1; DT: 2; LB: 1; S: 1; ATH: 1
