With the 2024 college football campaign in the rearview mirror, Pro Football Focus is ranking the best returning players at each position heading into the 2025 season.

PFF unveiled its ranking of the top 10 returning wide receivers this week, and Clemson’s Bryant Wesco checked in at No. 7 on the list.

A consensus top-35 prospect nationally according to the major recruiting services coming out of Midlothian (Texas) High School, Wesco shined as a true freshman in 2024, when he caught 41 passes for 708 yards — a team-high 17.3-yard average — and five touchdowns over 12 games (11 starts). His 17.3-yard average was the highest by a Clemson player with at least 40 catches since Tee Higgins in 2019 (19.8) and the best by a Tiger freshman with 40 or more receptions since Justyn Ross in 2018 (21.7).

When Wesco reeled in three receptions for 130 yards — including a 76-yard touchdown — in his first career start vs. Appalachian State, he tied Artavis Scott, Justyn Ross and Cole Turner for the fewest career games needed to record a 100-yard receiving game in Clemson history (two).

The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Wesco joined Sammy Watkins as the only players in Clemson history to record multiple 100-yard receiving games in the first four games of a college career.

Wesco comprised half of Clemson’s freshman receiver duo in 2024 alongside T.J. Moore that made the Tigers the first power conference team since at least 2000 to have multiple freshmen reach 650-plus receiving yards and five or more touchdown catches in a single season.

Here’s what Pro Football Focus’s Max Chadwick had to say about Wesco, who was named a freshman All-American by multiple outlets, including PFF:

The final rising sophomore on this list, Wesco helps form one of the nation’s best trios next year alongside Antonio Williams and fellow sophomore T.J. Moore, both of whom had compelling cases to also be ranked here.

Wesco’s 707 receiving yards in 2024 trailed only Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams among true freshmen wideouts, while his 2.21 yards per route run ranked fifth and led the Tigers. He showed off his upside most in Clemson’s ACC Championship win over SMU, against whom he caught eight passes for 142 yards and two touchdowns.

Wesco’s receiving yards were the most by a freshman in ACC Championship Game history, and tied for the second-most of a player of any classification in ACC title game history.

The ACC title game marked Wesco’s third 100-yard game of the season, and he became only the fifth Clemson true freshman with three or more 100-yard receiving games since the NCAA instituted permanent freshman eligibility in 1972.

Clemson enters the 2025 season with plenty of talent at receiver. Along with Wesco and Moore, the Tigers’ receiving corps also features Antonio Williams, Tyler Brown, Cole Turner, Adam Randall and transfer Tristan Smith.

–Clemson Athletic Communications contributed to this story