Our sense from talking to folks directly involved here is that those on the outside of the program are much more worried about the consequences of a thinner depth chart than those on the inside.

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Now, maybe that comes from the acceptance that there's only so much that can be done, and the Tigers will simply have to cope with the cards they've been dealt.

But Clemson's staff is also leaning on the belief it has done this before and got through it.