Clemson finished up it’s final practice of fall camp on Tuesday evening. The Tigers will take Wednesday off to adjust to the start of classes before diving back into a scrimmage on Thursday afternoon in Death Valley. Head coach Dabo Swinney and selected players met with the media following the last day of camp to recap the last two weeks.

Here is what we heard:

Swinney is proud of his team for working hard throughout camp and is really excited to get a change of pace with the start of the school year.

“Really looking forward to it, to be honest with you. I’m so dang tired of looking at each other. I think we’re all a little camp drunk right now,” he said. “We’re ready for a little shift of gears. We’ll kind of turn the script now and enter into the next phase of our preparation and process that we’re going through to get them ready to play. I’m proud of our guys, proud of how they’ve competed and pushed through.”

The biggest news of the day was that defensive end Austin Bryant fractured his foot on Monday and had to have surgery on Tuesday to put a screw in it. Swinney said he should be out a few weeks and he hopes to have Bryant back by the time the Tigers make the trek to Georgia Tech.

Swinney said the good news is he put in the work he needed to in camp and they feel confident in him once he is healed.

“He had a good camp and got a lot of good work in. That is a positive.” Swinney said. “I really hate it for Austin, he had a great camp.”

When asked if defensive tackle Christian Wilkins will now see more time at the end position, Swinney said that is definitely a consideration.

“He demonstrated this spring that he could do everything we needed him to do,” Swinney said.

Wilkins hates to see his good friend get hurt, but he knows Bryant will be back and the versatile lineman is prepared to play whatever position it takes to help the team win.

“It’s the next man-up mentality. We love Austin. It is unfortunate he had to have an injury. That’s one of my best friends on the team so I hate to see him go down,” Wilkins said. “I really wanted to see him step into a starting role and I’m sure when he comes back he will be better than ever, but its unfortunate right now that he was injured and he will not get to start the season with us.”

While Wilkins has been cross training on the defensive line, tight ends coach Danny Pearman has been preaching the importance of becoming a complete player on the offensive side of the ball.

“His message to me and the whole room really is to be a complete player,” tight end Garrett Williams said. “I think Jordan (Leggett) is a complete guy and has developed into a complete guy, but what Coach Pearman tells us that we have to develop into complete guys and be more well rounded.”