Healthy again heading into the 2025 season, Clemson wide receiver Tyler Brown has impressed during spring ball.

Brown’s quarterback, Cade Klubnik, is one person who loves what he’s seen from Brown this spring, coming off a 2024 campaign in which he missed most of the year due to injury.

“Tyler looks really good, man. He looks really good,” Klubnik said following Monday’s practice. “He looks quick, and his hands are great. He couldn’t play. He was on the JUGS machine every day. So, that’s what you’ve got to do. So, his hands are really good. He looks twitchy.”

Now entering his third year at Clemson, Brown’s path to this point is much like that of fellow Tiger wideout Antonio Williams.

Similar to Brown, Williams was Clemson’s leading receiver as a freshman All-American in 2022, but was then limited by injuries to a handful of games as a sophomore. He ended up redshirting that year before bouncing back with a career year last season (75 receptions, 904 receiving yards, 11 receiving touchdowns) en route to first-team All-ACC honors.

Brown, an explosive local product of Greenville High School, burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2023, when he earned a freshman All-American selection after leading Clemson in receptions (52) and receiving yards (531) while catching four touchdown passes.

After his 2024 season was derailed by injury following his highly productive 2023 debut, Brown has made big strides ahead of the 2025 campaign, according to Klubnik.

“He’s definitely taken a jump,” Klubnik said. “He was really good his freshman year, but he’s gotten a lot better. And that’s really exciting, especially coming off the injury he had. Defenitely similar to (Antonio).”

Due to his ankle injury, Brown played in only four regular season games and two postseason games last season, triggering a mid-career redshirt.

Brown has received a lot of guidance from his receiver mate in Williams, who certainly understands what Brown has gone through while being injured and sidelined.

“He’s always been a big guide for me,” Brown said of Williams. “I feel like we’re almost going on the same path – just that freshman All-American year, and having that slump in the sophomore season, whether it be injuries or just not feeling the best. I just feel like he’s a good role model, how he just popped back out his third year and went to go get money last year. So, he’s a really good guide for me.”

Brown was injured in the second game of last season against App State and had to work his way back from the ankle injury that eventually required a tightrope surgery. The 5-foot-11, 180-pounder caught five passes for 30 yards in 76 offensive snaps over six games (two starts) in 2024.

After playing 17 snaps against Florida State in early October, Brown didn’t play in the next seven games, but returned to action in the ACC Championship Game vs. SMU and played four snaps in that contest. He then logged a couple more snaps in the College Football Playoff loss to Texas.

Considering the way last season went personally, Brown said this spring has been “a blessing” for him, and he isn’t taking for granted the fact he is healthy again and back on the field with his teammates.

Brown is soaking it all in heading into what he hopes will be a big-time bounceback season like Williams enjoyed last year.

“I’ve become more grateful with everything,” he said. “Every single day, I’m taking it in each and every day, just thanking God for allowing me to be here. I feel like I’m just taking more appreciation in what I’m doing, and it just feels great to be out there again with my team and have the guys that we have just lifting me up every single day.”