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Clemson Tigers Snapshot Profile: No. 39 Aidan Swanson

Swanson enters his third season with the Tigers as their starting punter.

Heading into the 2022 season, ClemsonWire will look at multiple players on the Clemson football roster.

Over the preseason, each profile will cover where the player is from, how recruiting websites rated them coming out of high school and what role they will play for head coach Dabo Swinney this season.

For this profile, we will take a closer look at punter Aidan Swanson.

Swanson enters his third season with the Tigers this fall after being named the starting punter last week. The Florida native has spent most of his Clemson career as the backup for veteran kicker B.T. Potter, but Swanson will get his chance as a starter when the Tigers kick the season off against the Yellow Jackets on Monday, September 5.

Here’s a snapshot look at Aidan Swanson.

The one position group for Clemson that still has ‘a long way to go’

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney had one question exiting the spring, and it appears that question has yet to be answered.

As Clemson concluded spring ball in April, the one question head coach Dabo Swinney had about his team surrounded the punting unit, and there hasn’t been much clarity since then.

With Will Spiers now in the NFL, the starting punter position has become a competition between junior Aidan Swanson and kicker B.T. Potter, who has taken on the challenge of potentially playing both special teams positions.

While Swinney is confident in the protection and personnel, the punting itself from Swanson and Potter hasn’t been up to standard.

“We have a long way to go,” Swinney said on Monday. “Aidan had a really bad first day and came out the next day, and he was unbelievable on Saturday. He’s just got to find a way to be consistent.”

Swinney didn’t comment on Potter’s performance after the first couple of days of fall practice, but during the Tigers’ first practice on Friday, Swinney was not pleased with either.

“That might have been the worst punting drill I’ve ever seen in my life that first day. It was awful.”

“We’ll be ready, but we’re not ready right now. We have a long way to go.”

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