Peter Woods (born March 5, 2005) is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

defensive tackle A defensive tackle (DT) is a position in American football that will typically line up on the line of scrimmage, opposite one of the offensive guards, however he may also line up opposite one of the tackles. Defensive tackles are typically the la ...

for the

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. Woods was raised in Alabama and attended

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, winning four state championships. He was one of the top players in the

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, ranked No. 9 nationally and as the top defensive tackle by

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College Career

Woods enrolled at Clemson University in early 2023. In his first offseason with the team, Woods garnered praise from head coach

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and position coach Nick Eason, particularly for his performance in the Tigers spring game, with Swinney describing him as having "no weaknesses". Prior to the start of the 2023 season, he was selected by

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and ESPN as a true freshman preseason All-American.

College statistics

References

External links

Clemson Tigers bio
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