Josiah Oxendine may have been a little limited in what he could do, but the 2026 in-state quarterback was still able to turn in a good showing when he camped at Clemson the first week of June.
Oxendine (Dillon) has been nursing a hamstring injury over the past few weeks, and while it might have limited his mobility, it wasn’t going to keep him from showcasing his arm to the Clemson coaching staff. At one point, offensive analyst Tajh Boyd even went as far as tailoring a drill just for the young signal-caller.
“I thought I did pretty good,” Oxendine told The Clemson Insider. “Coaches were very understanding. They told me the number one thing about camps is staying healthy. They were doing a drill, stopping and starting, and coach Boyd actually pulled me to the side and he actually worked something that I could do, like subtle movements in the pocket. Nothing like stop and start, running fast. I appreciated that.”
The way Dabo Swinney runs his camp is a little different than most others, something that stood out to Oxendine.
“For starters, you get there, you don’t get measured, you don’t do combine stuff,” he said. “They tell you straight that coach Dabo’s here to teach us the fundamentals of the game. So we go through stations and two practices. You go through stations and stuff with other coaches, some actually from different schools and former coaches and former players that actually played there. I enjoyed that part of it. It’s completely different than what I thought.”
And despite the hamstring, Oxendine performed really well, getting some positive feedback from Garrett Riley and some of the other offensive assistants.
“It was really good, actually,” Oxendine said. “Coach told me to keep on working, I’m still very young. That’s what they were telling me. They watched my film and stuff. And they also said there’s a lot of kids there and they’re gonna go back and look at the film to get even better details.”
Oxendine has already picked up Power-5 offers from Tennessee and Pitt. He has already attended camps at Wake Forest, Tennessee, East Carolina, Virginia Tech and Duke this summer. He plans to work out at Florida State on Monday and then he has a team camp at North Carolina, as well as a date at Alabama.
As he gets set to head into his junior season, more offers are bound to come and Oxendine is hopeful at some point, Clemson will be one of those schools.
“It would mean a lot,” Oxendine said. “Clemson is already one of my top schools, as far as the schools I want to go to. I love what coach Swinney does with his program, his beliefs. I respect everything he said, because he actually gave us a speech after camp. A speech about his beliefs and what the standard is at Clemson.”
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