When Clemson opens up training camp on Tuesday at the Indoor Practice Facility, it will open it up with six running backs, including four who saw significant action at some point last season and another one who has two years of experience and was a projected starter in 2014 before being struck with injury.

“It is a good situation to be in because it is good competitive depth,” Clemson running backs coach and co-offensive coordinator Tony Elliott said.

Wayne Gallman, who rushed for a team-high 769 yards in 2014, is listed No. 1 on the depth chart, which is followed closely by C.J. Davidson, Zac Brooks, Tyshon Dye, C.J. Fuller and Adam Choice, who is coming back from knee surgery after tearing his ACL at Boston College last October.

“I have six guys that can compete. They all bring something a little bit different, but they all understand what it takes to be the guy,” Elliott said. “I have to brag on those guys … the ways in which they conduct themselves off the field, the way they perform in the classroom, the way they are carrying themselves in the community, it is just a fun group to coach because they are about the right things.

“They are all competitive and they all want to be the guy, but they also understand the responsibility that is associated with that and they are working every day to put themselves in position to be that guy.”

The job is Gallman’s to lose right now. He finished the regular season by rushing for 191 yards and a touchdown in the win over South Carolina and rushed for nearly six hundred yards in the final six games of the season. He did nothing to lose that confidence from the coaches in the spring.

However, Brooks and the others don’t want to just hand him the job either. Brooks had a good spring to put himself back near the top of the depth chart and Davidson really came on at the end of the spring to get back in the race as well.

Then there is Dye, perhaps the more natural runner in the group. After finally getting back from back and achilles injuries last October, he has got himself back in or in better shape than he was when he reported to camp back in 2013 as a true freshman.

“I would not say the leash is very long for Wayne,” Elliott said. “Wayne still has a lot of ceiling left. He has a lot of potential being he is the one guy that did not play running back his entire life. He is still learning every day.

“The (length of that) leash is going to be determined by how far he wants to extend it. But right now going into camp all of those guys are competing. I thought coming out of spring Zac was nipping at his heels, C.J. had a great spring game, Fuller was a pleasant surprise, we know where Choice is coming out of his injury and I’m excited for Tyshon to have an off-season to be able to get himself back in shape and be able to compete.”