Clemson running back Will Shipley took to social media to announce his intentions to enter the 2024 NFL Draft.
From CUAD:
One of the nation’s most dynamic and versatile running backs who entered the 2023 bowl season with 2,718 yards and 31 touchdowns on 515 career rushing attempts and 593 yards and two touchdowns on 83 career receptions in 1,485 offensive snaps over 35 career games (27 starts) … also credited with 32 career kickoff returns for 810 yards (25.3 avg.) as well as one pass attempt for a two-yard touchdown … made an instant impact as a freshman in 2021 and followed that campaign with a 2022 season in which he became the first player in ACC history to be selected as a first-team All-ACC honoree in three different categories (running back, all-purpose and specialist) and was one of four finalists for the Paul Hornung Award (nation’s most versatile player) … joined Clemson’s Travis Etienne, Louisville’s Lamar Jackson and North Carolina’s Giovani Bernard as the only ACC players to rush for 11 or more touchdowns in both their freshman and sophomore campaigns since 2000 … two-time All-ACC Academic Team selection and academic standout who in 2022 became Clemson’s first Academic All-American since 2012 and the first Clemson running back ever to earn the honor … became the ninth player in school history to score 30 career touchdowns and the eighth player at Clemson ever to rush for 30 touchdowns … community leader who in 2023 became a Wuerffel Trophy semifinalist and Clemson’s ninth all-time selection to the AFCA Good Works Team for his service and philanthropy.
2023: Voted by his teammates as a permanent team captain … became the ninth member of the Clemson program all-time to earn AFCA Good Works Team honors, joining Robert Carswell (1999), Nick Eason (2000), Xavier Dye (2009), Deshaun Watson (2016), Sean Pollard (2018), Dabo Swinney (2019), Trevor Lawrence (2020) and Darien Rencher (2021) … Wuerffel Trophy semifinalist … third-team All-ACC selection by Phil Steele and College Football Network … CSC Academic All-District honoree … enters bowl season having rushed 156 times for 798 yards with five touchdowns and having caught 29 passes for 235 yards with two receiving touchdowns in 461 snaps over 11 games (eight starts) … also credited with five kickoff returns for 106 yards … combined with Phil Mafah to form only Clemson’s seventh running back duo to each eclipse 750 rushing yards in a single season since 1948, Clemson’s first pair of backs to accomplish the feat since “Thunder and Lightning” James Davis and C.J. Spiller in 2007 … rushed 17 times for 114 yards and caught a career-high-tying six passes for 29 yards with his first career receiving touchdown at Duke … surpassed both 2,000 career rushing yards and 3,000 career all-purpose yards in that performance at Duke … rushed nine times for 73 yards and caught three passes for 22 yards vs. Charleston Southern … rushed 10 times for 38 yards and added two catches for seven yards vs. Florida Atlantic … rushed 18 times for 67 yards with one touchdown and caught four passes for 38 yards and another touchdown through the air vs. No. 4 Florida State … moved into the Top 10 in school history in rushing touchdowns and total touchdowns with those scores against the Seminoles … Shipley rushed 18 times for 61 yards with a touchdown at Syracuse, becoming the ninth player in Clemson history ever to score 30 career touchdowns … rushed 19 times for 97 yards with a touchdown vs. Wake Forest … rushed 15 times for 44 yards at Miami (Fla.) … rushed six times for 21 yards and caught two passes for 20 yards at NC State prior to exiting the game in the first half with an injury … rushed 11 times for 77 yards with a touchdown and added three receptions for 30 receiving yards vs. Georgia Tech, joining Travis Etienne, James Davis, Travis Zachery, Wayne Gallman, Andre Ellington, C.J. Spiller and Lester Brown as the only players in school history to reach 30 career rushing touchdowns … earned team offensive player of the game honors when he produced his 10th career 100-yard rushing game against No. 20 North Carolina after he rushed 18 times for 126 yards with a touchdown and added two receptions for a career-high-tying 53 receiving yards for a season-high 179 all-purpose yards, in the process becoming the 10th player in Clemson history to reach 4,000 career all-purpose yards … rushed 15 times for 80 yards and caught four passes for 32 yards at South Carolina, passing Jacoby Ford (4,083) for ninth on Clemson’s all-time leaderboard for career all-purpose yards in the process.