Dabo Swinney provides updates on battered offensive line after Week 12 win

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After a big win in Week 12, the Clemson Tigers head into Week 13 a bit beat up.

The Tigers came away with a big win against the Pittsburgh Panthers to keep their hopes of making the college football playoff alive.

Week 12 was the final regular season ACC game for Clemson and they finished conference play with a solid 7-1 record. While that is a very solid record, the Tigers will need help if they are to reach the ACC Championship Game.

With time running out on the season, the most likely way for the Tigers to get into the championship game is for the Miami Hurricanes to lose one of their final two conference games of the season.

Clemson will have two games left this year, but they will play The Citadel and the South Carolina Gamecocks.

As the Tigers head into Week 13, head coach Dabo Swinney recently gave an update on some injuries along the offensive line.

“Yeah, we have a feeling,” Swinney told Jason Preister of the Clemson Insider. “It’s crazy.” “Sadler and Tate and Leigh and Elyjah are really good players, but we’ll see,” Swinney added. “We’ll see where we’re at (Monday) and figure it out. We’ve got a whole week to figure it out. So we’ll roll some guys out there.” I feel good about where Tristan and Marcus are as far as the progress they’re making,” Swinney said. “So hopefully they’ll continue to trend in a good direction.”

The unit is definitely scared going into the fight against The Citadel, which could pose some potential problems. In the narrow win against the Panthers, the offensive line struggled as the Tigers couldn’t get anything going on the ground.

Phil Mafah had his worst game of the season as he totaled just 17 rushing yards on 17 carries. The upstart offensive line was probably a big contributor to that.

While Clemson should be able to handle their Week 13 opponent with a beaten offensive line, they will need the unit to be healthy against the Gamecocks.

As the week goes on, the Tigers should get some more clarity on who will be in and who will be out on offense. Hopefully the unit will have a few good days off and get healthy for their Week 12 matchup.