Cade Stewart was more than happy to find out that he could enroll at Clemson this summer.
Originally, Stewart committed to Clemson as a greyshirt, after his first pledge to Georgia Southern. The Daniel High School senior learned of the news after his baseball game, when Dabo Swinney delivered the good news.
“It’s like a sigh of relief, to know you’re in good hands — it’s like a burden off my shoulders,” Stewart told TheClemsonInsider. “It just makes you feel like you do belong here and you really are there to compete, so you better start working out now, because you don’t have a whole semester to worry about it.”
TCI first-reported the news last month.
“I found out that night after the game that we had,” Stewart said. “It was just an awesome, cool experience. We were on the bus and it was cool finding out on a full bus ride home after you just got done winning. It was pretty cool.”
Stewart is the fifth addition to the 2016 class, which includes two four-stars: Sean Pollard and John Simpson and a pair of three-stars: Tremayne Anchrum Jr. and Chandler Reeves. Rivals lists Stewart with two.
And Clemson was his only Power Five offer. It will all be used as motivation as Stewart moves forward over the coming months.
“I just want to be able to prove everybody wrong. All those schools that said I was too short or too slow or not good enough, I just want to be able to look back on it and say…I proved everybody wrong and I do belong here,” Stewart said.
At Clemson, he expects to play center or guard.