Buried on depth chart, two more Clemson players enter transfer portal

Two more Clemson football players have entered the transfer portal.

Jaelyn Lay, a redshirt sophomore tight end, entered the portal on Sunday. Darnell Jefferies, a redshirt junior defensive tackle, followed on Monday.

Lay, a 6-foot-6, 265-pounder from Atlanta, played 27 snaps in three games last season and found himself buried on the Tigers’ depth chart at tight end behind starter Davis Allen and backups Sage Ennis and Jake Briningstool, who are both freshmen.

Lay was a highly regarded recruit out of Riverdale High School, where he was ranked the No. 4 tight end nationally by ESPN. He did not have a reception last season and finished his career at Clemson with two catches for 25 yards.

Jefferies, a 6-2, 270-pounder from Covington, Georgia, played in five games this past season and was credited with one assisted tackle. He had 21 tackles in 23 career games.

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Jefferies became the 11th Clemson player to enter the transfer portal since the beginning of the 2021 season last September.

Previous transfers are wide receivers Ajou Ajou (South Florida) and Frank Ladson Jr., quarterback Taisun Phommachanh, safeties Ray Thornton (South Florida) and Joseph Charleston (Missouri), linebacker Kane Patterson (Vanderbilt), offensive tackle Paul Tchio (Georgia Tech) and running backs Lyn-J Dixon (West Virginia) and Michel Dukes (South Florida).

This article originally appeared on Greenville News: Buried on depth chart, two more Clemson players enter transfer portal