Enters 2025 with 27 career receptions for 418 yards and two touchdowns as well as five career carries for 56 yards and a rushing touchdown in 456 offensive snaps over 19 games (two starts) … flashed down the stretch of his redshirt season in 2022, including a 100-yard effort in his second career game in the 2022 ACC Championship Game.
2024: Recorded 16 catches for 229 yards and two touchdowns, five rushing attempts for 56 yards and a touchdown in 284 offensive snaps over 14 games … returned two punts for four yards … caught one pass vs. No. 1 Georgia … gained 49 yards on four catches and rushed once for 12 yards vs. Appalachian State … scored his first career touchdown of any kind on an 18-yard run vs. NC State; the touchdown run was the first by a Clemson receiver since Will Swinney scored on a fake field goal against UConn in 2021, and it was the first touchdown run by a Clemson receiver on an offensive play since Tee Higgins’ 36-yard touchdown run against LSU in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game to end the 2019 season … caught three passes for 61 yards vs. Stanford including the first receiving touchdown of his career on a 43-yard pass from Cade Klubnik … recorded a 13-yard reception at Florida State … contributed a 31-yard catch vs. Virginia … caught a 29-yard touchdown at Virginia Tech … caught a 13-yard pass at Pitt … gained 33 yards on three receptions and added a 23-yard rush vs. The Citadel.
2023: Caught three passes for 28 yards in 70 snaps over two games (both starts) before missing the majority of the season with an adductor injury … registered two catches for 21 yards at Duke … caught a seven-yard pass vs. Florida Atlantic before suffering his season-ending injury.
2022: Caught eight passes for 161 in 102 offensive snaps over three games while redshirting … ACC Honor Roll selection … made his collegiate debut vs. Miami (Fla.), catching a nine-yard pass for a third-down conversion … recorded Clemson’s first 100-yard receiving game of the season vs. No. 24 North Carolina, catching three passes for 101 yards including a team-season-long 68-yard reception … tied Artavis Scott (2014) and Justyn Ross (2018) for the fewest career games played needed to record a 100-yard receiving game in Clemson history (two) … gained 51 yards on four receptions in the Orange Bowl vs. No. 6 Tennessee.
Thanks to research assistance from @TimBourret while I was on our Orange Bowl site visit, we now know Cole Turner became only the third Clemson player ever to produce a 100-yard receiving performance within the first two games of a career. pic.twitter.com/xA5Zs6jKJ5
— Ross Taylor (@ClemsonFBRoss) December 9, 2022
Before Clemson: Named first-team All-South Metro as an athlete after recording 42 catches for 581 yards and seven touchdowns in addition to accounting for touchdowns via punt return and kickoff return … averaged 19.5 yards per punt return and 34.5 yards per kickoff return, finishing the season with 1,160 all-purpose yards … second-team all-state … coached by Buddy Anderson and Sean Calhoun at Vestavia Hills High School … initially focused on basketball before playing his first season of high school football as a junior … committed to Clemson on Jan. 16, 2022 … enrolled in the summer of 2022.
Personal: Sociology major … his late father, Kevin, played football with Dabo Swinney at Alabama … Kevin went on to play eight years in the NFL with New England and Philadelphia … his brother, Nolan, was a 2020 All-America safety who played 65 career games and earned two degrees at Clemson from 2016-21 … born April 11, 2003.