Bryant Wesco isn’t trying to soften the edge around Saturday’s game. The Clemson wideout said Wednesday that Georgia Tech is personal for him, and he tied that feeling to last season’s loss in Atlanta, when the Yellow Jackets beat the Tigers on a last-play walk-off field goal.
“I take this one personal,” Wesco said. “We went in their home, and they got us on a last-play winner last year.
So I’m just taking this personal, and then we owe it to our fans. We owe it to Death Valley to come out here and win these home games, these type of games that we got to play in conference.”
For Wesco, that mindset isn’t limited to one matchup. He said the standard has to be the same no matter who Clemson lines up against.
“Everyone should have it on their shoulders to come out here and dominate no matter who we’re playing,” he said. “I like to take every game personal. I like to take every game as if everyone’s coming after me.”
That same confidence has shown up in the way he talks about Clemson’s passing game, especially his growing connection with Tait Reynolds. Wesco pointed to Reynolds’ 53-yard throw that opened the Syracuse game and said the quarterback’s progress has been obvious.
“I think he’s just grown in his decision-making, first of all, and then he’s gotten a lot more mature back there in the pocket,” Wesco said. “Just going through practice, we’ve been playing a lot faster, being on the same page, and then that really just translated over into the game.”
Clemson’s struggles in the red zone remain a major issue. The Tigers rank 137th nationally there, with only 11 touchdowns on 30 trips, and Wesco put the responsibility on the players rather than the play sheet.
“It really just comes down to execution at the end of the day,” he said. “It’s not really so much as bad play calls or none of that. We just, as players, we got to take it accountable, hold ourselves to that standard of just executing the plays the way we should.”
He also said the challenge is mental as much as physical.
“Not letting the moment get to you. Just when you’re in the red zone, everything seems a lot tighter. Just being able to play faster, process stuff a little quicker than you should on a normal down basis.”
Wesco also had a laugh when asked about Nolan Hauser’s comment that he’d be a wide receiver if he weren’t a kicker. He didn’t exactly hand out a scouting report, but he did give Hauser some credit.
“He’s pretty athletic for being a kicker, I would say. He does have the legs.
There was one play on punt where he kind of ran down, made a sideline tackle. So he could probably run, maybe a little bit, if anything.
I don’t know how his hands are.”
Outside the field, Wesco said he is not on track to graduate after three years and still has another year to go. He also said the NFL draft isn’t on his mind right now.
“I haven’t really been worried about that,” Wesco noted. “That’s kind of a decision to make after the season’s ended.”
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