CLEMSON — There are a few players new offensive coordinator Chad Morris cannot wait to get his hands on. One of them is wide receiver T.J. Moore.

Why is Morris so excited to get his hands on the rising junior receiver? He looks like a couple of guys he has coached before at Clemson.

Morris was previously Clemson’s offensive coordinator from 2011-’14 when he had pass catchers such as DeAndre Hopkins, Sammy Watkins, Artavis Scott and Mike Williams.

Clemson’s newest coach loves to take shots down field, at least three times a quarter, and Moore is the perfect candidate to help do it.

Moore had two touchdown receptions of 75 yards last season and led the Tigers with 52 receptions and four touchdowns, as well as a team-high 837 receiving yards. He was the only Clemson receiver to start all 13 games in 2025.

For his troubles, Moore earned third-team All-ACC honors.

“He has just learned how to practice,” head coach Dabo Swinney said last November. “I am really proud of T.J. He was one of those guys last year that was really talented and the game just kind of comes easy to him. He was not very detailed, early, as a freshman, and did not have great practice habits.”

Of course, that changed in 2025.

Moore’s better practice habits have started to shine through. Thus far in his Clemson career, he has tallied 97 receptions for 1,488 yards with five touchdowns in 27 games (22 starts) in his first two seasons. He joined Justyn Ross, Scott and Watkins as the only players in Clemson history to record at least 650 receiving yards in each of their freshman and sophomore seasons.

“We are a two-back-run-oriented-play-action-shot-football-team that is going to take great pride in pushing the ball downfield,” Morris said last month. “We want to push the ball down the field at least three times a quarter. That means the ball traveling down the field 25 yards or more three times a quarter. Chart it, let’s figure it out. Why it is not happening and get the ball to our playmakers.”

And one of those playmakers is T.J. Moore.