Why Clemson’s Justyn Ross is being limited in practice
Clemson receiver Justyn Ross is being held out of contact work in practice because of “some stinger symptoms lingering,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney announced following Wednesday’s practice.
Ross did not practice Monday and was held out of Wednesday’s scrimmage. He did attend the scrimmage but is being held out of contact because “they’re just trying to be precautionary with him.”
The junior had 66 catches for 865 yards and eight touchdowns last season. He was first on the team in catches and second in yards.
Ross had 1,000 yards as a freshman and is expected to take an even more prominent role with Tee Higgins moving on to the NFL.
Swinney is hopeful Ross will be back to practice when the Tigers return from spring break March 23.
“Even though he’s fine now they want to make sure that there’s no bigger issue or anything like that,” Swinney said. “So hopefully when we get back we’ll have more information at that time.”
Swinney added that Ross was moving around fine on Wednesday and went through individual work. Ross walked by Swinney as he was conducting his post practice interview and appeared fine.
“If you’d have been out here today he was running full speed and looks great, but just holding him out of contact, making sure there’s no other issues,” Swinney said. “Just a stinger, just wasn’t really much at all but he kind of had a little lingering stinger, and then he was fine. But any time you have that where it lingers a little bit you wanna be very precautious. So that’s what doctors are doing.”
This story was originally published March 11, 2020 at 7:03 PM.
