Clemson Mourns Passing of Diondre Overton – Clemson Tigers Official Athletics Site

CLEMSON, S.C. — Former Clemson extensive receiver Diondre Overton, who helped Clemson to nationwide championships in each 2016 and 2018, has handed away. He was 26 years outdated.

Overton performed greater than 1,000 profession snaps at Clemson throughout the 2016-19 seasons, amassing 52 profession receptions for 777 yards and 7 touchdowns over 51 video games with 5 begins. He went on to play professionally within the USFL, recording 42 catches for 533 yards and 5 touchdowns for the Philadelphia Stars over the 2022 and 2023 seasons.

A two-time nationwide champion and four-time ACC champion, Overton caught a landing go in every of the primary two video games of Clemson’s 2018 nationwide championship season, together with Clemson’s penultimate rating of its 28-26 win at Texas A&M. He recorded a profession yr as a senior in 2019, catching 22 passes for 352 yards and three touchdowns. That yr, he earned the Leather-based Helmet Award because the Most Beneficial Participant of the Clemson/Boston School recreation for a efficiency by which he posted 119 yards and three touchdowns on solely three receptions.

A local of Greensboro, N.C., Overton signed with the Tigers out of Walter Hines Web page Excessive Faculty. He earned his diploma from Clemson in sports activities communication in the summertime of 2019.