Tee Higgins injury update: Clemson WR exits, returns to College Football Playoff semifinal vs. Ohio State

Tom Gatto

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Clemson wide receiver Tee Higgins missed most of the first half of the Tigers' College Football Playoff game vs. Ohio State on Saturday after suffering a possible head or neck injury. He returned to the game for the start of the second half.

Higgins was shaken up as he jumped for a pass from Trevor Lawrence in the first quarter. His helmet was knocked off his head by safety Jordan Fuller before he landed on his left elbow out of bounds.

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Higgins later walked to the Clemson locker room with a trainer to be examined.

The junior came into the game with 52 receptions — second on the team to Justyn Ross — for a team-high 1,082 yards and 13 touchdowns. Ross left Saturday's game in the third quarter after landing on his right shoulder.

Clemson trailed Ohio State 16-14 at halftime.

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.