CLEMSON — Being a local kid, Grayson Clary has been camping at Clemson for some time now.

However, Clary isn’t quite as local anymore. After helping lead Daniel to the third round of the 4A playoffs, the young quarterback has moved. Clary is transferring to Raburn Gap, across the state line in Georgia. He is also reclassifying to the 2028 class.

“I am super young for the 2027 class,” Clary told The Clemson Insider. “I pretty much just turned 16. With the transfer portal and things like that, I could be a 17-year-old going to college in early December, playing up against, I guess, guys that are like 25. So we thought the best thing for me would probably just be to reclass. Also, it would be a lot easier for me to mid-year enroll from there with all the credits and everything like that. And we are like a Top 40 school in the country for football and like Top 20 for academics.”

After being the full-time starter at Daniel last season, Clary is transferring, knowing he will be splitting time this season.

“I’ll be splitting time this year with Gavin Owens; he’s committed to Memphis right now,” Clary said. “He’s a great guy. Grew up training with him, doing whatever with him. So I’m looking forward to that, learning under him for a while, and seeing where all this goes.”

Clary has some family ties to Clemson. His father was an academic advisor at the school during the early years of the Dabo Swinney era, and during that time he got to know Tajh Boyd really well. Boyd was the quarterback for the Tigers at the time, and now serves as an assistant quarterbacks coach.

Clary is once again set to work out at camp on Wednesday, and he is looking forward to reconnecting with Boyd. He will only work out at the morning session.

“(Known him) pretty much my whole life,” Clary said. “My dad was an academic advisor for the school growing up. For football and a few other sports. Tajh was one of my dad’s guys. There’s actually a picture of me and Tajh, where he was babysitting me.”

Last season, Clary passed for 2,841 yards with 41 touchdown throws to just two interceptions. His QB rating was 144.2. He also rushed for 310 yards with seven more touchdowns.

Having reclassified to the 2028 class, Clary knows Clemson is still a year away from offering players in that class. However, he really respects the Tigers’ recruiting process.

“I like it because they’re not — I guess the best way to put it is they’re not just succumbing to all the pressure from the outside,” Clary said. “I guess one of the big things is they stand firm to what they believe in and what they want to do. That makes me put my trust in them. With the transfer portal and everything, they are doing it the way that when I was growing up, I was told it would be done.”

Clary just landed his first Power-4 offer from Oregon. That is obviously a big one, while Liberty, App State and Memphis are some of his other offers.

Ole Miss, Florida State, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Notre Dame, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Indiana and Wake Forest are all showing interest too. And on Tuesday, he is hoping to take a step towards earning an offer from Clemson next summer.

“It would mean a lot,” Clary said. “Just because of how selective they are. They are not just going to offer every top-ranked guy in the country, Like, they will just offer the five guys the most and I really appreciate that side of it. It would mean even more being a local kid.”

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