By Hale McGranahan.

Juwuan Briscoe committed to Clemson about as quickly as he emerged onto the recruiting scene.

It was at the Washington D.C. Nike Football Training Camp in late April when Briscoe’s name popped up on the radar. After clocking a sub 4.5 time in the 40, his stock spiked.

Rutgers gave Briscoe his first offer while he was on campus in late April. About a month later, Briscoe visited and committed to Clemson.

“He’s a great athlete, obviously, runs really well. He’s physical, he’s a strong kid. He plays both ways for us, almost every snap. I think he came out four plays last game. He loves to compete and get after it,” Waldorf-Stone head coach Paul Friel told TheClemsonInsider, during a recent interview.

“When you give him the ball, he’s going to run hard, but even on his blocking assignments, he’s going and being real physical, knocking people around,” Friel said. “Just his competitive nature, too, makes him stand out.”

That’s why, within the last few weeks, schools like Ohio State, Penn State, Florid and Oklahoma all sent out offered.

“I wasn’t really surprised,” Friel said, when asked about Briscoe’s recent uptick in recruiting interest. “Being that he didn’t play his sophomore year, he wasn’t see as much. Even in our own backyard at the University of Maryland, I talked with them and said, ‘You probably want to look at this kid.’ They came in on him and Rutgers was first to offer him. Then, it kind of got started and slowed down a little bit. But, now, he’s having a pretty good senior season.”

And things have “gotten crazy again” for the Tigers’ cornerback commitment.

“He’s not really jumping at all these different offers,” Friel said. “It’s not like he’s like, ‘Oh, I want to go there, I want to go there, I want to go here.’ He’s pretty committed and just, maybe, looking at one other school, to kind of make sure that he’s making the right decision.”

That one other school being Ohio State, which hosted Briscoe for an official visit two weekends ago.

“I mean, they weren’t happy at first and I don’t blame them,” Friel said, when asked about the reaction from the Clemson coaches.

“To me, personally, I don’t think he should have committed so early. You have a kid committed, you feel like he’s ours. But I think he felt like all his offers were over, at that point. But, obviously, some other people came in.

“Really, at the time, during the spring, Ohio State was recruiting him, but when they didn’t offer him, I think he was kind of like, Clemson is definitely a great place and, maybe, a better fit for him than Ohio State anyway, so he went ahead and committed.”

Friel doesn’t get the sense that anything is changing for Briscoe.

“I know they would rather have him stick with his commitment, but as far as I know, talking to him, he still feels like that’s his No. 1 deal,” Friel said.