Before he takes the field for a Week 1 showdown against LSU, Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnik addressed the rumor that he was recently injured in a car accident.

“I was sitting at home just hanging out with my roommates and my mom calls me crying,” Klubnik, 21, told reporters on Wednesday, August 27. “I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ She was just tearing up, seeing if I’m OK. I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m fine. What’s going on?’’ She saw that post that dude, or whoever, posted.”

A post on Clemson fan site TigerNet over the weekend said that Klubnik was involved in a car wreck and he “couldn’t move his arm or shoulder.”

Klubnik said his mother Kim’s panicked phone call was “the first thing I heard of it.” The quarterback said he received other concerned texts and phone calls checking on him after the

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