Sellars Looks to Add to Clemson WR Legacy

Clemson is introducing all 15 of its freshmen midyear enrollees in a series of episodes on Clemson Football’s official podcast, 2 Right Turns.

The latest early enrollee to appear on the podcast was Gordon Sellars III — one of the standouts of the Tigers’ March 28 spring game.

Sellars, a former four-star prospect from Providence Day School in Charlotte, N.C., gave a scouting report of himself as a player and competitor.

“Just a dawg – a dawg who doesn’t want to lose,” Sellars said. “If somebody lines up in front of me, it’s 100 percent me, or nobody’s going to get the ball. So, just knowing that and knowing that I want to win – like, losing, it makes something inside of me mad. So, just knowing that and just knowing that I’m a ballplayer and I have the ability, because I’ve done it before. It just makes it easy for me to know that I can do it.”

Before enrolling at Clemson in January, Sellars — a two-time all-state and all-conference honoree — tallied 2,419 receiving yards and 29 touchdowns on 133 career receptions at the prep level.

As a senior, Sellars produced 59 receptions for 917 yards and 15 touchdowns while helping guide Providence Day to a perfect 13-0 record and the third state title of his career.

Playing for the Orange team during its 23-3 victory over the White team in Clemson’s spring game, Sellars caught three passes for 34 yards, including an impressive 8-yard touchdown grab from Christopher Vizzina, where Sellars spun and hauled in the pass one-handed for a 7-3 lead in the second quarter.

Clemson wide receiver Gordon Sellars III (19) celebrates with offensive lineman Elyjah Thurmon (52) after catching a touchdown during the annual spring game Saturday, March 28, 2026 at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C. (Bart Boatwright/The Clemson Insider)

The 6-foot-3, 175-pounder named former Clemson and current Cincinnati Bengals star Tee Higgins as one receiver that he’d compare himself to stylistically.

“I feel like there’s a lot of different receivers. But Tee Higgins – I see the long stride, the ability to catch the ball, hands, fast,” Sellars said. “But mentality wise, it’s a lot of different receivers in the league that have a different mentality, and I feel like that’s what separates people in the game now. Because some people can get complacent. But I feel like if you have the mentality that you’re going to keep going and you’re not going to lose, it just makes it easy for you.”

Sellars committed to Clemson on April 18, 2025, choosing the Tigers over a slew of other offers, including schools such as South Carolina, Georgia and Michigan. He had been one of the Tigers’ top wide receiver targets since the fall of 2024, when Sellars picked up his offer after an unofficial visit that September. ESPN ranked him as the 28th-best wide receiver and No. 165 overall prospect in the 2026 recruiting class.

As he embarks on the first season of his career with the Tigers, Sellars is looking to add to the legacy of great Clemson wide receivers.

He says Clemson’s rich tradition at that position, and the success the Tigers have had putting receivers in the NFL, played a big part in his college decision making as a recruit.

“It was very important to me,” Sellars said. “Because growing up, that’s all I saw on TV. Like, DeAndre Hopkins, Tee Higgins, Justyn Ross – all those guys, that’s all I saw. So, when I got the offer, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy.’ And then when I committed, I told the person who made my edit, I was like, ‘I need you to put DeAndre Hopkins and Tee Higgins on my edit, and then put me in the middle.’ When they did that, I was like, I’m joining the crew. I have a chance to really add my own legacy upon all the other legacies that’s been here. So, that was special to me.”