By Hale McGranahan.

Tanner Muse has mixed emotions about the days that are ahead of him.

Committed to play football at Clemson since January, a chance to play professional baseball could dictate otherwise.

“It’s really exciting and it’s really stressful as well, because hurting people’s feelings if it’s not coming or going, so its just stressful on me to — I just don’t like to hurt people’s feelings,” Muse said.

There are several unknowns for the senior safety/outfielder from Belmont, North Carolina had planned to enroll at Clemson in January, but he recently decided to stick around for his final semester at South Point High School.

Muse also has winter workouts scheduled with the Pirates and Dodgers.

“I was going to do them during the summer, but we had football workouts before the season started, so I couldn’t do that so I could scrimmage before the season, but I’ve got to do that during the winter time,” he said.

Muse added, “You come, you throw, you hit and stuff like that, just kind of showcase what you do.”

That’s when he’ll start to get a better sense of just how hard the decision to attend Clemson or play professional baseball could be.

“I’ll have to go to my couple of workouts to see where they’re going to range me at in the draft or whatever, so we’ll just have to see,” Muse said.

Even though Muse was a baseball player before he ever stepped onto the gridiron, he wouldn’t call baseball his first love. The two sports have been equal since day one.

“I didn’t really have either one jump out, just whatever season is, that’s my favorite,” Muse said.

Muse, who was listed on the Shrine Bowl roster as an outside linebacker, is playing safety for the North Carolina team.

“It’s nice to play with a bunch of players like this. It’s fun,” he said.

The Shrine Bowl experience has been a positive one, too.

“I’m really grateful to be able to play in something like this,” he said. “I was humbled

(Sunday) by being able to see the kids in the hospital. It just shows you — day-to-day — how blessed you are, coming out here to be able to play with such a great group of guys, it’s truly a blessing.”