The summer recruiting season is in full-swing. Unfortunately, real, live college football is still a couple of months away.

With that in mind, TheClemsonInsider is taking a look back at the recruitment of each returning player to the Clemson roster with the Back When series.

CB [autotag]Marcus Edmond[/autotag], Hopkins – RS Sophomore

N.C. State, Wake Forest and Arizona State were the first three schools to offer Edmond, who spent much of his high school career playing quarterback at Lower Richland High School.

In June of 2012, the summer between his junior and senior year, Edmond committed to N.C. State. Tom O’Brien, the head coach he committed to play for in Raleigh, was fired that November.

Edmond planned to sign with N.C. State after Dave Doeren was hired to take over for O’Brien, and Doeren wanted to have him.

Things changed for Edmond when Clemson offered a couple of weeks before signing day. Days after the Tigers’ late-January offer, Edmond was on campus for an official visit to Clemson.

Clemson flipped him before the visit was over.

For the second time, Edmond committed to play for defensive backs coach Mike Reed, a six-year assistant under O’Brien. Reed was hired as the replacement for Charlie Harbison, who moved on to Auburn at the end of the 2012 regular season.

Reed, of course, played a role in securing Edmond’s commitment to Clemson.