By Hale McGranahan.

Before leaving Mooresville Senior High School in North Carolina on Wednesday, Clemson defensive backs coach Mike Reed left a card for 2017 cornerback Chris Ingram.

The 6-foot, 175-pound cornerback had offers from N.C. State and East Carolina before speaking on the phone to Reed that afternoon.

“As I was leaving school, one of my football coaches, well, my guidance councilor and my coach, he called me over and gave me a card for the defensive back coach at Clemson,” Ingram said, during an interview with TheClemsonInsider.

“He told me that he wanted to talk to me and he said that he was pretty sure they were going to offer me. Once I got home, I called (Reed). We were talking on the phone and he asked me who all offered me.

“I told him my two offers and he said, ‘Well, you might as well go ahead and add to Clemson to it.'”

Ingram told TCI that he was happy that Clemson jumped on board.

“That was one on my list that I was hoping to be able to add by the time the season started,” he said.

Though Ingram has never been to Clemson, he’s familiar with the program and is intrigued by the Tigers’ pre-game ritual.

“I love the way they run down the hill before every game,” he said. “It gets me pumped every single time I watch a pump up video, it shows a couple clips of them running down the hill before every game.

“I could just imagine myself running down the hill before a game also in a couple of years.”

Ingram hopes to make his first trip to Tigertown within the next few weeks.

“I’m trying to be down there by the end of next month,” he said. “So, by the end of May, I hope I’ll be able to get down there and be able to get a look at their campus.”

As a sophomore, Ingram had 40 tackles, three interceptions and five pass breakups. He also returned a punt for a touchdown