While it may be starting to get a little late in the process, Nick Gordon is not giving up on his dream to play at Clemson.

The 2027 in-state wideout, out of Cheraw, has long dreamed of suiting up and playing for the Tigers. Gordon has been attending camp since he was a youngster. He visited for the Duke game last season and was on campus twice during the spring. Wake Forest, South Carolina, Liberty, Furman and Charleston Southern also got spring visits.

Assistant wide receivers coach Drew Swinney was in to see Gordon at his high school last month, and the message was clear.

“He told me I need to come to camp,” Gordon told The Clemson Insider. “The whole coaching staff loves what I do. They just want to see me perform. This is a major camp year, and they just want to see me perform in front of Coach Swinney and ball out.”

Gordon will indeed be back at camp this summer. He plans to work out on June 2.

With Artavis Scott now back on the coaching staff, the speedy 5-foot-11 wideout has another real connection to the school. While Scott was an assistant at Howard, he gave Gordon his first collegiate offer last year.

“He was the first person to offer me,” Gordon said. “I have just had a good mix with him for a long time. And coach Grish as well. Throughout this whole process, we have been texting and everything.”

Gordon won Region 4 AA Offensive Player of the Year honors for his strong junior campaign. The speedster hauled in a team-high 49 receptions for 695 yards with six touchdowns. He also had close to 500 return yards, giving him 1,337 all-purpose yards on the season.

Howard, Harvard and Penn currently represent Gordon’s offers. After recently running a 4.35 forty-yard dash at the UA Next camp in Charlotte, that list is likely to expand in the near future.

However, it’s an opportunity to play at Clemson that is the ultimate goal, and come June 2, he’s going all out and making one last-ditch effort to make that dream become a reality.

“It would mean everything,” Gordon said. “Of course, that is the dream school. I have been going there since I was a kid. I have been going to camp since I was seven. That is just the dream school. An amazing program. That is something I want to be a part of. Coach Swinney runs a great program and it’s been very successful.”