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The theme of the week has been Clemson’s scouting of several running back candidates in the crosshairs for an offer.

As we noted yesterday, co-offensive coordinator Tony Elliott paid a visit Thursday afternoon to perhaps the most intriguing prospect in the candidate pool: Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Blackman's Master Teague.

Why the most intriguing? Because we believe he was the most credible candidate Clemson's staff simply had the least feel for.

Teague (5-11, 210) visited Clemson for its junior day in March, but he’s not someone the Tigers had been tracking closely through the fall or into the early part of this year.

But there was reason to believe he was growing on Clemson and vice versa, and we’ve opined he checked a lot of the boxes for what the Tigers look for both stylistically and in regards to personality fit.