The first episode of Clemson Football’s official podcast, 2 Right Turns, featured a series of rapid fire questions to the three guests: defensive tackles coach Nick Eason and rising sophomore defensive linemen T.J. Parker and Peter Woods.
They were asked, out of the Tigers’ D-line group, who is the loudest, most encouraging and best/worst dressed?
Eason also weighed in on the question, which Clemson D-lineman is going to be the best football coach one day?
Eason first named Woods as the answer to that question before quickly bringing up a true freshman defensive tackle in Champ Thompson.
“If I had to choose in the D-tackle room, it’d probably be Peter right now. Yeah, it would be Peter, or you know who I’ve been impressed with so far? I know he just got here, but Champ Thompson. I’ve been impressed with him,” Eason said.
Eason went on to say that the 6-foot-3, 280-pound Thompson, a former four-star recruit from Georgia who enrolled early in January, is giving Eason “Tyler Davis vibes.”
“His attention to detail and his approach to the game is giving me Tyler Davis vibes, from a preparation standpoint,” Eason said of Thompson. “He hasn’t played in a game yet, so I’m not going to crown him from that perspective because you’re talking about Tyler Davis — he’s the guy, he’s the man. Huge shoes (to fill).”
The son of former Atlanta Falcons offensive tackle Michael Thompson, Champ was credited with 36 tackles, 7.5 sacks and four pass breakups as a senior in high school after posting 38 tackles, seven tackles for loss and three sacks as a junior.
Eason also mentioned Parker and redshirt junior Cade Denhoff as a couple of Clemson defensive ends that he thinks would be great coaches one day, and Eason later went on to discuss what it is that makes a “Clemson kid.”
Check out the following segment from the first episode of Clemson Football’s 2 Right Turns:
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