CLEMSON – At his weekly Tuesday press conference, Dabo Swinney updated the status of several injured Clemson players, including quarterback Christopher Vizzina.

Vizzina, named the starter for the Tigers at the beginning of the year, made two appearances against LSU and Georgia Southern before suffering an arm injury in the early minutes of the game against the Eagles. Since then, the senior signal-caller’s name has appeared on multiple facets of the Tigers’ availability reports.

Over the course of the last two months, Vizzina has been listed as questionable, available and doubtful throughout the course of the season. However, he has not made another appearance on the field since the early minutes of the 22-7 Georgia Southern win, in which he threw a passing touchdown.

Recently, following the Tigers’ final availability report ahead of their matchup against Syracuse in which Vizzina was technically available and dressed out, another setback pushed back the quarterback’s progress, according to Swinney.

“It has been a rough week,” Swinney said after last Saturday’s win over the Orange. “CV would not have been able to play. Monday night we are running a screen drill, and he rolls an ankle. Steps on an offensive lineman and rolls his ankle. So, he did not practice all week. He could hardly walk. He was very gimpy.”

Three days later, the Tigers’ leader updated the veteran’s status ahead of Clemson’s upcoming home game against Georgia Tech this weekend after one full practice Monday evening. 

“I’d say (Vizzina) didn’t look good last night,” Swinney said. “He felt good on Sunday, but the shot hadn’t worn off yet. But it wore off yesterday. He couldn’t really do much last night. He’ll be ready for game day, but you can’t give him a shot in practice.”

However, in the next several days ahead of Clemson’s seventh conference game, Swinney expects Vizzina to improve enough to be available to play on Saturday. That means that as a fourth-year player, Vizzina will be available on his Senior Day.

However, he will not be anywhere near full-speed in practice this week.

“He’s going to be available this week,” Swinney said. “He’s just going to be very limited in practice. Can’t give him a shot at practice.”

In the meantime, veteran backup Trent Pearman will get the practice reps with the second-string players, according to Swinney. As a fifth-year player, the former South Carolina high school Gatorade Player of the Year will also get to celebrate his Senior Day. 

“Trent will get all the reps with the twos,” Swinney said.

So far this season, Pearman has played in two games for the Tigers, completing eight of his 13 passes for 80 yards. In his four-year career,  Vizzina has completed 78 passes for 698 yards and five passing touchdowns.

Freshman quarterback Tait Reynolds, who has started every game since the Georgia Southern game, will be ready to play this week, despite dealing with a “banged up shoulder.” So far this season, he has completed 155 passes for 1446 yards and three passing touchdowns.

Reynolds will again be the presumed starter Saturday when the Tigers will host Georgia Tech at Memorial Stadium.