Clemson linebacker giving up football
Clemson linebacker Bryton Constantin is being forced to retire from football before ever appearing in a college game.
Constantin announced Monday night on Twitter that he is giving up the sport due to injuries. Constantin tore his ACL in February of 2019 while still in high school and re-tore it last September. He suffered a third torn ACL in February of 2020.
“As many of you know I’ve been battling 3 ACL surgeries over the past 1 1/2 years and it has slowly taken away my passion to step on the field again,” Constantin posted on Twitter. “I will be stepping away from playing this game. I will still be enrolled at Clemson and on the team but just helping out in other ways.”
Constantin is from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was a four-star recruit in the class of 2019. He was rated as the No. 170 overall player in the country and the No. 8 outside linebacker by the 247Sports Composite rankings.
Constantin is expected to take a medical hardship waiver, meaning he stays on scholarship but it does not count as part of the program’s limit of 85.
This story was originally published July 27, 2020 at 7:45 PM.
