Clemson’s star quarterback, Cade Klubnik, met with the media on Wednesday ahead of the Tigers’ highly anticipated season opener again LSU this weekend.

Klubnik was asked about the prank post that surfaced recently, saying he had been in a car accident.

Fortunately, there was no truth to that post, and KIubnik is fine.

However, it understandably scared his mother, and Klubnik said she actually called him and was crying and concerned about him.

“I was sitting at home, just hanging out with my roommates,” Klubnik said Wednesday. “My mom calls me, crying. And I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ She’s like tearing up, seeing if I’m OK. I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m fine. What’s going on?’ I saw whoever posted it. But that was the first [I heard of it], and then the calls and texts started coming in.”

Klubnik added it was a “messed up joke.”

“I don’t know who it was, but man, just shame on them for the pain that they had to put people that I love through,” he said. “I’m not really interested in talking about it anymore, but it was a messed up joke, whatever.”

“But I’m OK,” he added with a smile.

Klubnik and his fourth-ranked Clemson team kick off the 2025 season against No. 9 LSU at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium on Saturday night (7:30 p.m., ABC).