Clemson quarterback before he plays a Week 1 showdown against LSU Cade Klubnik Talking about rumors that he was injured in a car accident recently.
“I was sitting at home hanging out with my roommate and my mom told me to cry,” Klubnik, 21, Tell reporters on Wednesday, August 27. “I thought, ‘What’s going on?’ She just tore it apart, am I OK.
Over the weekend, an article on Clemson fan website Tigernet said Klubnik was involved in the wreckage of a car and he “cannot move his arms or shoulders.”
Krubnik says his mother goldThe panicked call was “the first thing I’ve ever heard.” The quarterback said he received other relevant texts and phone checks after his mom’s first call.
“I don’t know who that is, but man, just shamed for the pain they had to bring to my loved ones,” Cade said of the post. “I’m no longer really interested in talking about it. But it’s a messy joke. But I’m OK.”
Cade’s mother first refuted the message board rumors that had been deleted earlier this week.
“Thankfully, this is fake news,” King told CBS Sports. “Cade is great!”
King added: “Because someone shared this story with me, my heart didn’t stop playing. How could someone be so cruel?”
Klubnik, a preseason for college football best player to win the Heisman Trophy and one of his early favorites to win the Heisman Trophy, has been underperforming 9-4 since his sophomore season.
“Everyone told me I was sucked, not very good,” Krubnik told Associated Press Earlier this month. “A lot of people want me to leave Clemson.”
Although annoying, Clemson’s head coach Dabo Swinneytell Krubnik that he still believes in him.
“It’s a confidence to have someone I look up to and believe in, telling me he believes in me,” Krubnik said. “He could have done what many other coaches would do.” [and find a transfer quarterback]but he didn’t. ‘”
Swinney remembers this moment, saying he knows to keep Klubnik because the team’s starting quarterback will be subject to a lot of “criticism”.
“I just know there will be a lot of noise,” Sweeney, 55, told the 55-year-old Associated Press. “He’s a young guy and I just think it’s important to let him know that I totally believe him. I don’t want him to worry about me going out and finding another person. I want him to know, hey, you’re my guy.”
#4 Clemson held #9 LSU on Saturday, August 30 at 7:30 a.m. ET.
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