Given all the success Clemson has experienced over the past decade, why not pull from the program whenever possible? New USF coach Jeff Scott will be bringing a fellow Clemson staffer with him to Tampa with the addition of Da’Quan Bowers as a defensive line coach. Scott and USF announced the addition to the football staff on Sunday, a day after Clemson edged Ohio State in a College Football Playoff semifinal game.
“Da’Quan was an absolutely dominant player for us at Clemson and I am excited that he will bring that experience and his professional playing experience to coaching our players at USF,” Scott said in a released statement. “Da’Quan has been doing great work with our defensive line the last two years at Clemson and is ready to excel in his first full-time coaching opportunity.”
Bowers was a unanimous All-American in 2010 and the winner of the Bronko Nagurski Trophy and ACC Defensive Player of the Year as a key member of the Clemson program’s rise to its current status as a college football powerhouse. Bowers went on to be a second-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2011. Bowers played five seasons in the NFL, a brief career riddled with injury concerns.
Bowers returned to Clemson as an undergraduate coach in 2018 as he worked to complete his degree following his retirement from professional football.