Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson will not be made available to the media that cover’s the Atlantic Coast Conference at next week’s ACC Football Kickoff in Pinehurst, N.C., but at least he was made available to the media that is covering the Elite 11 Quarterback Camp at Nike in Beaverton, Oregon.

ESPN College Football writer Travis Haney released a story titled, “USC’s Cody Kessler, Ohio State’s J.T. Barrett get in reps at Elite 11” on ESPN.com’s College Football Page on Friday. Inside the story, Watson tells him the injuries that transpired in his freshman season at Clemson were “weird.”

“It was so weird,” Watson said in the article. “I’d never been through anything like that. There was definitely a feeling in the big picture of, ‘Why is this happening to me?’ I had to push past that. I really do think everything happens for a reason.”

As we all know, Watson’s weird season began in the spring of 2014 when he broke his collarbone in the last week of spring practice and could not play in the Tigers’ annual Orange & White Spring Game.

By the beginning of season, however, Watson’s shoulder was back to full strength and he was ready to go. Following the third game of the season at Florida State, he took over as the Tigers’ starting quarterback after coming off the bench and throwing for 266 yards and running for one touchdown in a near upset of the top-ranked Seminoles.

In his first career start the following week, he threw for a school-record six touchdowns and nearly a school-record 435 yards as the Tigers smacked North Carolina in a 50-35 victory in Death Valley. The magic continued the next week in Death Valley when Watson threw for two more scores and ran for two others in the Tigers’ 41-0 blowout of NC State.

Watson rushed for 62 yards against the Wolfpack, and on one of his two touchdowns, he hurdled an NC State defender to get into the end zone.

But things got weird, again, against Louisville the following week. Late in the first quarter on a designed run, his right index finger got stuck in the facemask of a Cardinals’ defender on the way down to the ground. It broke the finger and forced the true freshman to have surgery to repair it. That caused Watson to miss the last three quarters of the Louisville game and all of the following three games.

He finally came back at Georgia Tech on Nov. 15 as he staked the Tigers out to a three-point lead in the first quarter and were driving for more when in the wide open field with no defender around, his left knee went out on him around the Tech 15-yard line. It turned out he tore his ACL, though at the time Clemson did not officially report it as such.

Two weeks later, unknowingly to South Carolina and the 82,000 fans packed into Memorial Stadium he was playing with a torn ACL, Watson led the Tigers to a 35-17 win, snapping the Gamecocks’ five-game win streak in the series. He threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns against USC that afternoon, while also running for two more scores. It is now considered to be one of, if not the greatest, performance in the rivalry’s colorful history.

Watson had surgery to repair his damaged knee in December and missed the Tigers’ 40-6 victory over Oklahoma in the Russell Athletic Bowl. He also missed all of the spring drills this past March and April to rehab it. But by the end of the spring, the Clemson quarterback said he was near 80 percent healthy.

In Haney’s article, Watson said he officially has not been cleared to practice, but he is not expecting any limitations once preseason camp begins on Aug. 4. Haney reported Watson did not wear any kind of leg brace during the Elite 11 Camp, and did not show any effects from the injury.