Variety is the spice of life. It’s also key to putting together a quality wide receiver corps.

Clemson’s staked its claim as Wide Receiver U thanks to an arsenal of pro wide receivers: DeAndre Hopkins (Texans), Sammy Watkins (Bills), Martavis Bryant (Steelers), Jaron Brown (Cardinals) and Adam Humphries (Buccaneers). Charone Peake is next. Others are on deck, including Mike Williams and Artavis Scott.

Over the last five seasons, they’ve all brought a little something different to the Tigers’ hurry-up, no-huddle attack.

“I think that’s important. We try to do a good job of that every year,” Dabo Swinney told reporters on Signing Day. “I think Jeff does an excellent job of trying to bring all the tools that we need to the offense, because it’s different — just like you can’t go out and sign all centers. You need guards and tackles.

“You can’t sign all d-tackles. You need ends. You can’t sign all MIKE ‘backers — you need some outside guys. You can’t sign all corners. You need different things, so you’ve got to find the right mix, and I think you’ll see this in next year’s class as well.”

Clemson’s 2016 wide receiver class includes a trio of highly-recruited prospects: T.J. Chase, Diondre Overton and Cornell Powell.

“T.J. is a great prospect, really smooth with great ball skills, a savvy, instinctive player, a guy that’s played a lot of defense as well,” Swinney said. “I think he brings a mentality that you love to have there.”

Freak was the first word that came to mind for Swinney when he spoke about Powell.

“Just physically — he is a freaky guy. He looks like Sterling Sharpe — what Sterling Sharpe looked like with the Packers,” Swinney said. “It’s unbelievable, his physical development for a young guy. Really strong, fast.”

Then there’s Overton, the third and final addition to the class, who possesses a variety of qualities that Clemson looks for in a wide receiver.

“He’s a cross between Mike Williams, Martavis Bryant (and) Nuk Hopkins,” Swinney said. “He’s a big-time basketball player like Mike and Nuk were. Great ball skills, very raw.

“Unbelievably gifted and so much untapped potential. He’s only played a couple of years. This kid has a chance to be really, really special. He’s already 200 pounds. As he transitions into playing football full-time, in that weight room and just getting the day in and day out part of the position, the sky is the limit for him.”

All of the newest additions to Clemson’s wide receiver corps were rated as four-stars.

“We hit a home run with all three of those guys. They really were our top picks. We probably offered about eight guys and those three guys were the top of our board,” Swinney said.

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