Jake Venables, the son of Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables, holds a handful of Power Five offers, and a slew of other schools are showing interest in the four-star linebacker from Daniel High School.

The Clemson Insider caught up with Venables, who said he had a good junior season after tallying 89 tackles, eight tackles for loss, six sacks, 14 pass breakups, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery as a sophomore in 2015.

“Very well,” Venables said of how his season went. “I don’t know where I ended up statistics wise. But I did well.”

Dabo Swinney offered Venables in June 2015 during the first session of the Swinney Camp. Texas Tech followed with an offer a month later before SMU pulled the trigger last October. A month ago, Venables collected his latest offer from Northwestern.

Venables, who visited Clemson on multiple occasions this season, said Clemson feels like a second home to him.

“Clemson has always been another home for me,” Venables said, “and that’s good.”

What does Venables like about the other schools that have offered?

“Texas Tech is nice — I love their coaching staff and what I saw when I was down there,” Venables said. “I know coach (Chad) Morris and a few other coaches at SMU pretty well. And Northwestern is a top-10 education, and their players always play hard.”

In addition to the aforementioned schools, Venables said he is hearing from Kansas State — where his dad played in the early 90s and coached from 1993-98 — as well as Oklahoma, where his dad was a defensive coordinator from 1999-2011, Baylor, Colorado, Duke, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, N.C. State, Ohio State, TCU, Texas and Wake Forest.

Along with his Clemson visits, Venables visited North Carolina for its game against Pittsburgh in September.

“It was nice,” Venables said. “Good to get up there and check things out. I had never been up there before. It was real cool.”

Venables is hoping to get to Kansas State, Northwestern and the Texas schools that have offered at some point over the summer after the conclusion of his basketball season.

Daniel is currently 3-0 on the court.

“Everything has been transitioning smoothly,” Venables said of his season thus far. “We are 3-0 and have 21 more games left I believe. But everything has been going well.”

On Tuesday, Venables was proud to see his dad win the Broyles Award, which is given annually to the top assistant coach in college football.

“It was awesome,” Jake said. “Seeing him work so hard over the years and watching him win it made me proud. He’s always been a hard worker, and I am blessed that he is my father.”

Brent is Jake’s recruiter for Clemson, and Jake feels it is a great benefit to have a mentor like his father.  He added that the topic of him playing for his dad comes up in conversation from time to time.

“It always helps knowing I have a resource right here at home in him,” Jake said. “He just tells me occasionally how much he would love to coach his son.”

Jake is evaluating all of his options, and said he will likely commit sometime over the summer before the start of his senior season. The 6-foot-2, 210-pounder said a couple of things will be especially important to him when making a decision.

“Probably have my whole family supporting me wherever I go,” Venables said, “and knowing that I am going to never regret my decision.”