Jon Gruden summed it up well in his phone conversation with Tanner Muse.

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"We want to keep this Clemson Tiger pipeline hot, man," Gruden said after the Raiders selected Muse in the third round.

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John Simpson would follow to the Raiders in the fourth round. That meant that over the past two drafts, five of Clemson's previous 11 draftees had gone to the Raiders.