Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney met with the media on Tuesday afternoon to wrap up Clemson Football’s 2025 Media Outing.

Swinney gave an update on where the Tigers stand from an injury standpoint heading into fall camp.

“We’re healthy. That’s been a good thing,” Swinney said during his press conference at the Smart Family Media Center.

“Health wise, we’re in a good spot,” Swinney added. “I anticipate everybody being in camp.”

Swinney also noted that redshirt sophomore running back Jay Haynes and freshman defensive end Ari Watford are “doing great” as they work their way back from ACL surgeries.

“They’ll be in camp,” Swinney said. “We’ll probably have them on a progression that fits where they are in their plan back to full speed go and being released.”

Head coach Dabo Swinney feels good about Clemson’s tight end room heading into the 2025 season. Despite the departure of two-time All-ACC honoree Jake Briningstool, Clemson’s all-time leader in career receptions by a tight end, Swinney feels the Tigers have all the pieces they need at the position entering this season.

Swinney spent some time during Clemson’s Media Outing on Tuesday talking about the tight end room as it stands right now, with several talented players slated to replace the production the Tigers are losing with Briningstool.

One of those talented tight ends is Christian Bentancur, whom Clemson was able to redshirt as a true freshman last season.

This year, the Tigers are hoping to do the same thing with true freshman tight end Logan Brooking and be able to redshirt him in 2025.

“Christian is special. There’s no question about it. I’ve seen enough out of him,” Swinney said. “We played him his four games last year, but with [Briningstool], we were able to hold him. Hopefully we can do that with Logan.”

Swinney added that he believes Brooking, who signed with Clemson as a member of the 2025 recruiting class, is “special.”

“But hopefully we can kind of play him some, but maybe hold him and steal a year,” Swinney said. “That’d be great, but you just don’t ever know.”

An NFL legacy and four-year varsity contributor in Georgia, Brooking was rated by ESPN as a four-star prospect and the 15th-best tight end in the nation. The 6-foot-4, 235-pounder played 47 games in his prep career at Savannah Christian Preparatory School, collecting 84 catches for 1,206 yards and six touchdowns. He averaged 14 yards per catch over his career.

Brooking, who enrolled at Clemson this past January, is the son of former 15-year NFL linebacker Keith Brooking – a five-time Pro Bowl selection who was the 12th pick of the 1998 NFL Draft and remains the all-time leading tackler for both Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Falcons.

Along with Brooking and Bentancur, Clemson’s tight end room features junior Olsen Patt-Henry and redshirt junior Josh Sapp, as well as former Clemson basketball star Ian Schieffelin, who joined the Tigers’ program this offseason as a tight end.

“I think Olsen and Sapp and Christian, that’s a really good group of guys in that room. And then you’ve got Logan, we’ll see where he is,” Swinney said. “Obviously [Schieffelin] coming over. I can’t wait. That’s something else I’m looking forward to is actually getting on the football field with [Schieffelin] and seeing him in full pads. That’s going to be a lot of fun… So, I think that’s a really good group.”