Dabo Swinney is not a glass half empty kind of guy. He leans to the positive side of things. The glass is always half full to him. That’s the way Clemson’s head coach likes to view his cornerback situation, where the team continues to take hits.

Cornerback Marcus Edmond is still nursing a hamstring injury that has kept him on the sideline since the first day of camp, and now Ryan Carter missed Wednesday scrimmage with a shoulder injury he suffered in practice on Tuesday.

Add those two on to the fact Adrian Baker is out for an indefinite amount of time as he continues to recover from a torn ACL, and the dismissal of Kaleb Chalmers back in the spring, and the Tigers are getting thinner by the second in the secondary. Even true freshman Brian Dawkins, Jr. is out for the season.

But Swinney refuses to look at Edmond’s and Carter’s injuries as negatives. Instead he looks to the positives and right now the positives seem to be the emergence of Trayvon Mullen and K’Von Wallace. The two true freshmen have been the talk of preseason camp.

Mullen has been a star since Day 1 and has become a serious contender to start at the other corner position opposite Cordrea Tankersley, while Wallace has taken advantage of his extra reps at corner and has now put himself on the coaching staff’s radar.

“We have been able to get a lot of work to some of these other guys. We have been able to work K’Von a lot at corner. We are finding out a little more about him. He had a nice pick at corner,” Swinney said following Wednesday’s situational scrimmage.

“Trayvon, he has been able to get a lot of work because he has not had to spilt some of the reps with Ryan Carter out today. Baker is out. Those are three veteran guys. Dawkins is out for the season. We have had to really challenge some guys and guys have taken advantage of that opportunity. Hopefully, we will get Marcus back pretty soon.”

And there is another positive Swinney likes to point out. He still has faith that Edmond is going to be just fine despite the fact he has missed the majority of fall camp.

“He is getting better. It is unfortunate because he was the guy we had penciled in as the starter on Day 1,” Clemson’s head coach said. “The good part of it is we know Marcus can play and we feel good about Marcus and the progress he has made. He has had a great summer so that is a positive.”

And Swinney isn’t going to look at it any other way.