Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney met with the media on Wednesday afternoon ahead of the Tigers’ first 2026 spring practice.

Swinney gave an injury update on rising junior wide receiver Bryant Wesco, who suffered a scary injury last season when he came down on his head in the October game against SMU.

Wesco was injured during a third-quarter punt return, in which he was flipped up in the air by an SMU defender and landed on his head. Though he got up and walked off the field, Wesco eventually left the game and was transported to a nearby hospital.

It was very serious. Wesco suffered a back injury and though he was allowed to go home the next day, his season was over. Luckily for Wesco, there were no fractures.

On Wednesday, Swinney said that Wesco “looks amazing” and will do everything but live scrimmage work in spring practice.

“Wesco is doing everything except tackling. We’re not going to do any live work, but he looks amazing,” Swinney said. “He’s flying. But he’s going to do all of our team separate stuff with all the install, but he’ll be held out of all the good on good this spring. That’s the one thing he won’t be allowed to do. But everything else – he’s timing with the quarterbacks, routes, all the install team separate stuff. He’s doing all that – mat drills, done everything. But he’ll have no live contact. So, he looks amazing. He’s doing great. I feel really good about him.”

Wesco was on-track for an all-conference-caliber season through six games in 2025 before suffering the season-ending injury in the seventh game of the year. The 6-foot-2, 190-pounder caught 31 passes for 537 yards with a team-high six receiving touchdowns over seven games (all starts) this season.

In 2025, Wesco became the fourth Clemson player in Swinney’s head coaching tenure to record at least six receiving touchdowns over the first six games of a season, joining DeAndre Hopkins, Deon Cain and Sammy Watkins. Wesco also became the fourth player in Clemson history to record 1,000 receiving yards in the first 15 games of a career alongside Watkins, Artavis Scott and Justyn Ross.

Wesco also became the first Clemson player to record at least 500 receiving yards and at least five touchdown catches in each of his freshman and sophomore seasons since Ross from 2018-19.

Wesco will enter the 2026 campaign having recorded 72 receptions for 1,245 yards and 11 touchdowns over 19 career games (18 starts).

He was a freshman All-American in 2024 when he was half of Clemson’s freshman wide receiver duo alongside Moore that made the Tigers the first power conference team since at least 2000 to have multiple freshmen reach 650-plus receiving yards and five or more touchdown catches in a single season.