LB Elijah Herring
Transferring from: TennesseeHT: 6-3 | WT: 238 | Class: Junior
Best fit: Clemson
Why? Herring is a tackling machine (he led Tennessee with 76 in 2023) and a pressure player who can be used as a blitzer. Clemson is thin and inexperienced at middle linebacker with Kobe McCloud and incoming freshman Sammy Brown in the mix. McCloud has 16 career tackles and is undersized. The outside linebackers, Barrett Carter and Wade Woodaz, are excellent, and Herring could shore up the inside. Clemson loves to get into some exotic pressure packages with the linebackers, which is right up Herring's alley. The Tigers would just have to start pursuing transfers to get him. Clemson is the only Power 5 school that hasn't signed a transfer this offseason.
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