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Jadeveon Clowney and Everett Golson go back to the future

Jadeveon Clowney has been hitting football players for a long time, even as a teenager.

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Before Jadeveon Clowney sent Vincent Smith hurtling through a wormhole, he was also finding other ways to turn innocent football players into stuffed pillows. Here he is at South Pointe High School in the 2010 SCHSL Class AAA State Championship, laying a nice hit on the one and only Everett Golson of Myrtle Beach, future BCS National Championship-starting Notre Dame quarterback:

(HT reddit r/cfb)

That wasn’t the only play during which Clowney terrorized Golson. GIFs, also via r/cfb:

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Clowney was the number one recruit back then. After all these years, he continues to remain the number one guy to go to for transferring momentum from one player to another. However:

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