Completed 916-of-1,432 career passes for 10,123 yards with 73 touchdowns and 24 interceptions in 2,894 career snaps over 49 games (40 starts) from 2022-25 … also rushed for 878 yards and 17 touchdowns on 369 rushing attempts and caught a 19-yard pass … finished his career with 11,001 yards of total offense, becoming the fourth quarterback in school history to reach the 11,000-yard mark … exited Clemson as the school-record-holder in pass completions (916) and pass attempts (1,432), third in passing yards (10,123) and fourth in passing touchdowns (73), total touchdown responsibility (90) and yards of total offense (11,001) … joined Rodney Williams (44), Tajh Boyd (40), Nealon Greene (40) and Charlie Whitehurst (40) as the fifth quarterback in Clemson history to start 40 career games at quarterback … posted a 26-14 record as a starter, concluding his career fifth in wins by a starting quarterback in school history … exited Clemson as one of six Tiger quarterbacks since World War II to win at least 25 games as a starting quarterback … became the third two-time ACC Championship Game MVP all-time.

2025: Voted by his teammates as a permanent team captain … William V. Campbell Trophy semifinalist … completed 257-of-392 passes (65.6 percent) for 2,943 yards with 16 touchdowns and six interceptions over 12 games (all starts) … also rushed 83 times for 94 yards with four touchdowns on the ground … completed 19-of-38 passes for 230 yards vs. No. 9 LSU … the game was his 14th straight game with 200 or more yards of total offense, surpassing Deshaun Watson’s school-record 13-game streak in 2016 … earned his 20th career win as a starter as he completed 18-of-24 passes for 196 yards with two touchdowns vs. Troy … completed 15-of-26 passes for 207 yards with one touchdown and added 17 carries for 62 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown at Georgia Tech … with the rushing touchdown, he joined Nealon Greene (1994-97), Charlie Whitehurst (2002-05), Tajh Boyd (2010-13) and Kelly Bryant (2015-18) as the only Clemson quarterbacks to rush for a touchdown in four different seasons since Clemson transitioned away from the single wing in 1953 … completed 37-of-60 passes for 363 yards and three touchdowns vs. Syracuse … the 60 pass attempts were the third-most in a game in Clemson history, trailing Deshaun Watson’s 70 attempts vs. Pitt in 2016 and Cullen Harper’s 66 attempts vs. Virginia Tech in 2007 … completed 22-of-24 passes for 254 yards and four touchdowns at North Carolina, joining Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes (Oct. 14, 2018) as only the second quarterback at the college or NFL level ever to throw four touchdown passes in a single half against a team led by Bill Belichick as a head coach … completed 22-of-30 passes for 280 yards and a touchdown and added 48 yards and a touchdown on nine rushing attempts at Boston College prior to exiting the game in the third quarter … started 34 consecutive games for Clemson prior to missing its contest vs. SMU with an ankle injury, ending Clemson’s longest starting streak by a quarterback since Tajh Boyd’s 40 consecutive starts (the school record for the position) from 2011-13 … completed 27-of-36 passes for a career-high 385 yards vs. Duke with two touchdowns and no interceptions … completed 20-of-27 passes for 221 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions and added a four-yard rushing touchdown vs. Florida State while becoming the fourth player in Clemson history to reach 10,000 career yards of total offense … completed 22-of-34 passes for 187 yards in engineering a fourth-quarter comeback win at No. 19 Louisville, becoming the seventh Clemson starting quarterback since World War II to earn 25 career victories … completed 9-of-15 passes for 159 yards and two touchdowns in fewer than 18 minutes of play vs. Furman, becoming the sixth Clemson quarterback since World War II to win 25 career games as a starting quarterback alongside Trevor Lawrence (34), Deshaun Watson (32), Tajh Boyd (32), Rodney Williams (32) and Charlie Whitehurst (25) … completed 24-of-39 passes for 268 yards and added 12 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown at South Carolina … completed 22-of-39 passes for 193 yards vs. Penn State, including a 44-yard pass to T.J. Moore on which he both broke Tajh Boyd’s Clemson record for career pass completions (901 from 2010-13) and became the fourth player in Clemson history to reach 10,000 career passing yards.

2024: Authored one of the most prolific seasons in school history, accounting for 43 combined passing and rushing touchdowns … completed 308-of-486 passes for 3,639 yards with 36 passing touchdowns against only six interceptions in 939 offensive snaps over 14 games (all starts) … added career highs with 463 yards and seven touchdowns on 119 rushing attempts … second-team All-ACC selection by Phil Steele, who included him among his All-America honorable mentions as well … tied Tajh Boyd (36 in 2012) and Trevor Lawrence (36 in 2019) for the second-most passing touchdowns in a season in Clemson history … his 36 touchdown passes were the most among all quarterbacks nationally with six or fewer interceptions … his 43 touchdowns responsible for ranked sixth in school history and were the most since Trevor Lawrence’s 45 in 2019 … recorded 4,102 yards of total offense (fourth nationally) to produce the seventh 4,000-yard season of total offense in Clemson history … recorded at least 200 yards of total offense in each of Clemson’s final 13 games, tying Deshaun Watson’s school record for the longest streak in school history (13 across the 2015-16 seasons) … finished the season with the third-most completions in a season in Clemson history, trailing only two seasons by Deshaun Watson (388 in 2016, 333 in 2015) … ranked seventh in school history in passing yards in a single season … ranked in the Top 20 nationally in passing touchdowns (3rd, 36), touchdowns responsible for (3rd, 43), pass attempts (4th, 486), completions (9th, 308) and passing yards per game (18th, 259.9) … All-ACC Academic Team selection … completed 18-of-29 passes for 142 yards vs. No. 1 Georgia … earned Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week, Davey O’Brien National Quarterback of the Week and ACC Co-Quarterback of the Week after he starred in a record-setting performance vs. Appalachian State, completing 24-of-26 passes for a then-career-high 378 yards and career-high five passing touchdowns in addition to scoring two rushing touchdowns in only one half of play … finished that game with a pass efficiency rating of 277.9, breaking Tajh Boyd’s school record for a single game with a minimum of 20 attempts … became the first Clemson quarterback to be responsible for seven combined passing and rushing touchdowns since Tajh Boyd’s ACC-record eight-touchdown performance against NC State in 2011 … became the first FBS quarterback in the last 25 years with five or more passing touchdowns, multiple rushing touchdowns and a completion percentage of 90.0 percent or better in a game according to ESPN Stats & Info … completed his first 13 passes of that game, the longest streak of consecutive completions in his career, and became the first ACC quarterback to record at least four passing touchdowns and multiple rushing touchdowns in a single half since Louisville’s Lamar Jackson in 2016 … led Clemson to touchdowns on all eight drives he engineered in that game … completed 16-of-24 passes for 209 yards with three passing touchdowns and added four carries for a career-high 70 rushing yards and one rushing touchdown vs. NC State, leading the Tigers to points on eight of his nine drives including seven touchdowns before exiting in the third quarter … his career-long 55-yard touchdown run in that game was the longest by a Clemson quarterback since Trevor Lawrence’s 67-yard touchdown run against Ohio State in the 2019 Fiesta Bowl … completed 15-of-31 passes for 255 yards with four passing touchdowns and added seven carries for 48 yards with a rushing touchdown vs. Stanford … completed 19-of-33 passes for 235 yards with two touchdowns and added 62 rushing yards on 11 carries at Florida State … named ACC Quarterback of the Week after he completed 31-of-41 passes for 309 yards with three touchdown passes and no interceptions and also added seven rushing attempts for 30 yards at Wake Forest … completed 23-of-35 passes for 308 yards with three touchdowns and one interception against Virginia, becoming the first Clemson quarterback with back-to-back 300-yard passing games since Trevor Lawrence in the final two games of the 2020 season … completed 33-of-56 passes for 228 yards and a touchdown vs. Louisville … completed 16-of-34 for 211 yards with three touchdowns at Virginia Tech including a highlight-reel play in which he spun away from a free rusher, kept his balance and sprinted to his right for a 41-yard touchdown pass to T.J. Moore … completed 27-of-41 passes for 288 yards with two passing touchdowns and no interceptions and added a game-winning 50-yard rushing touchdown at Pitt … his 50-yard rushing touchdown at Pitt was Clemson’s longest game-winning offensive touchdown inside the final two minutes of a game on record, and it made him the first Clemson player to record multiple 50-yard rushing touchdowns in a single season since Travis Etienne in 2019 (two) as well as the first Clemson quarterback to record multiple 50-yard rushing touchdowns in a career since Woodrow Dantzler (three from 1999-2001) … completed 12-of-16 passes for 198 yards and three touchdowns before exiting early in the third quarter vs. The Citadel; his third touchdown pass of the game made him the fourth player in school history to throw 50 career touchdown passes … completed 24-of-36 passes for 280 yards and added 10 carries for 62 yards and two rushing touchdowns vs. No. 16 South Carolina … completed 24-of-41 passes for 262 yards and an ACC Championship Game-record-tying four passing touchdowns vs. No. 8 SMU, becoming only the third player ever to win multiple ACC Championship Game MVP honors (Deshaun Watson and Tyrod Taylor, two each) … completed 26-of-43 passes for 336 yards with three touchdowns and one interception at No. 3 Texas, the most yardage surrendered all year by a Texas defense that ranked No. 1 in the nation in pass efficiency defense prior the game.

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2023: Completed 290-of-454 passes for 19 touchdowns and nine interceptions as well as having rushed 125 times for 182 yards and four touchdowns in 974 snaps over 12 games (all starts) … his 974 snaps were the fourth-most by a Clemson quarterback in a season and the most since Deshaun Watson’s 1,115 in 2016 … accounted for 579 plays of total offense (combined rushing and passing attempts), the most by a Clemson player since Kelly Bryant in 2017 (590) … his 290 completions were the fourth-most pass completions in a single season in Clemson history … All-ACC Academic Team selection … completed 27-of-43 passes for 207 yards with one touchdown and one interception and added 34 rushing yards on 12 carries at Duke … completed 28-of-37 passes for 315 yards with a then-career-high four touchdown passes and one interception vs. Charleston Southern … with the performance against Charleston Southern, he became the first Clemson quarterback with 25 or more completions in three straight games since Cullen Harper in 2007 … completed 16-of-27 passes for 169 yards with three passing touchdowns and no interceptions and rushed six times for 35 yards with a rushing touchdown vs. Florida Atlantic, becoming the first Clemson quarterback to be responsible for four touchdowns in consecutive games since Trevor Lawrence in 2020 … completed 25-of-38 passes for 283 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions and also scored a one-yard rushing touchdown vs. No. 4 Florida State … completed 23-of-37 passes for 263 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions at Syracuse, sharing team offensive player of the game honors … completed 18-of-28 passes for 131 yards and rushed 12 times for 48 yards with a touchdown vs. Wake Forest … completed 18-of-34 passes for 314 yards with two touchdowns and an interception at Miami (Fla.), the third 300-yard passing performance of his career … completed 33-of-50 passes for 263 yards at NC State … completed 13-of-26 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown in leading Clemson to victory vs. No. 12 Notre Dame; also recorded a 37-yard punt on a surprise pooch kick that pinned Notre Dame at its four-yard line … completed 23-of-34 passes for 205 yards and a then-career-high tying four touchdown passes vs. Georgia Tech, earning team offensive player of the game honors … completed 21-of-32 passes for 219 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions and also added 44 yards and a rushing touchdown on 12 carries vs. No. 20 North Carolina … completed 15-of-27 passes for 100 yards and rushed for a then-career-high 52 yards on 11 attempts at South Carolina, becoming the 25th Clemson quarterback since 1954 to win his starting debut in the series against the Gamecocks … completed 30-of-41 passes for 264 yards in the Gator Bowl vs. Kentucky, including going 8-for-8 as he led Clemson on a 12-play, 68-yard game-winning drive in 2:17 of elapsed game time in Clemson’s comeback victory … also went an uncredited 2-for-3 on two-point conversions in the contest.

2022: Completed 61-of-100 passes for 697 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions in 224 snaps over 10 games (one start) in his debut season … also rushed 42 times for 139 yards and two touchdowns on the year … ACC Championship Game MVP … All-ACC Academic Team selection … made collegiate debut at Georgia Tech, engineering a 10-play, 66-yard drive on which he completed 4-of-6 passes for 49 yards and a three-yard touchdown pass to Will Taylor … went 1-for-4 vs. Furman … completed 2-of-5 passes for 19 yards and rushed twice for seven yards vs. Louisiana Tech … saw action at Boston College, rushing once … entered in the third quarter vs. No. 14 Syracuse and completed 2-of-4 passes for 19 yards and rushing six times for 15 yards as he became the first backup quarterback to engineer a fourth-quarter comeback win for Clemson since 2018 (Chase Brice vs. Syracuse) … played two snaps in reserve at Notre Dame … rushed once for 13 yards vs. Louisville … completed 2-of-2 passes for 13 yards and rushed twice for 20 yards vs. Miami (Fla.) … earned ACC Championship Game MVP honors against No. 24 North Carolina after completing 20-of-24 passes for 279 yards and a touchdown, rushing seven times for 30 yards with a rushing touchdown and recording a 19-yard reception … became only the third freshman to be named ACC Championship Game MVP, joining Florida State’s Jameis Winston (2013) and Dalvin Cook (2014) … was the first player in ACC history to earn the honor after entering an ACC Championship Game in reserve … his 83.3 completion percentage was an ACC Championship Game record … completed 30-of-54 passes for 320 yards and rushed 20 times for 51 yards with a touchdown in the Orange Bowl vs. No. 6 Tennessee, becoming the first Clemson quarterback since the modernization of Clemson’s quarterback position in 1953 to make his first career start in a postseason game and also becoming the first Clemson quarterback to make his first career start against an AP Top 6 opponent since his offensive coordinator, Brandon Streeter, did so against No. 5 Florida State in 1997 … recorded Clemson’s fifth consecutive 300-yard passing game in games started by true freshmen, dating to 2018.

Before Clemson: Ranked as the top quarterback in the nation by Sports Illustrated, PrepStar, and Rivals.com … ranked as second-best quarterback by 247Sports and third by ESPN.com … two-time USA Today Offensive Player of the Year (2020 and 2021) … Gatorade Player of the Year in Texas and was named as one of three finalists for National Gatorade Player of the Year for 2021 … named MVP of the Elite 11 Camp in the summer of 2021 … guided Westlake High School in Austin, Texas to three consecutive state championships in 2019, 2020 and 2021, including the final two years as the starter … became the first quarterback to go undefeated as a starter while winning back-to-back state titles in Texas’ highest classification since Allen’s Kyler Murray … threw two touchdown passes in the All-American Bowl and was named as the organization’s National High School Player of the Year … ranked as the No. 3 overall player in the nation by Rivals.com and best player in Texas and best pro-style quarterback nationally … ranked as the No. 13 player in the nation by 247Sports, which also listed him as the second-best quarterback and third-best player in Texas … five-star quarterback according to Rivals.com, 247Sports and PrepStar … rated No. 24 overall in the nation by PrepStar, which listed him as the sixth-best player in Texas … ESPN.com ranked him as the nation’s No. 66 overall player and third-best quarterback … rated by On3 Sports as the nation’s No. 36 overall prospect, the nation’s fourth-best quarterback and the ninth-best prospect in Texas … played in 38 career games (including 37 Westlake wins), including a 27-0 mark as a starter his last two years … completed 481-of-687 (70.0 percent) career passes for 7,426 yards and 86 touchdowns vs. just seven interceptions, adding 197 carries for 1,319 rushing yards (6.7 avg.) and 31 touchdowns … had 8,745 career yards of total offense on 884 plays (9.9 yards per play) … accounted for 117 touchdowns — 86 passing and 31 rushing … came off the bench as a sophomore when he completed 53-of-69 passes (76.8) for 680 yards, eight touchdowns and just one interception … as a junior, completed 239-of-354 passes (67.5) for 3,495 yards, 35 touchdowns and just three interceptions … also had 583 yards rushing in 98 attempts for a 5.9-yard average and 15 touchdowns … had standout games against Smithson Valley, when he completed 25-of-29 passes for 345 yards and four scores, and against San Marcos, when he rushed for four touchdowns … team had a 14-0 record and won the state title in 2020 against Southlake Carroll and highly rated quarterback Quinn Ewers … as a senior in 2021, completed 189-of-265 (71.3) passes for 3,251 yards and 43 touchdowns against just three interceptions as the Chaps finished the year 16-0 … also rushed 70 times for 465 yards and 12 scores … missed three games with an injury … threw six touchdowns passes in a game twice as a senior and had 300-yard passing games against Trinity (322), Mansfield Summit (375) and in the state semifinals against Katy (310) … hit 20-of-27 passes for 310 yards and five touchdowns in that semifinal vs. Katy … threw for four touchdowns in state championship win against Denton Guyer … coached by Todd Dodge at Westlake High School, the same high school program that produced Super Bowl MVPs Drew Brees and Nick Foles … committed to Clemson on March 2, 2021 … enrolled at Clemson in January 2022.

Personal: Earned his degree in marketing in December 2025 … three-time All-ACC Academic Team honoree (2022-24) … three-time ACC Honor Roll selection (2022-24) … completed a microinternship with First Rate Exchange Services in London in May 2024 … represented Clemson alongside Dabo Swinney at South Carolina Coaches for Charity in July 2025 … named as the 2025 recipient of the Tim Bourret Award, presented annually to the player who best represents himself, his teammates and Clemson University in the media … his brother, Reed, played wide receiver at Yale … last name pronounced “CLUB-nick” … born Oct. 10, 2003.

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