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Former Clemson Wide Receiver, National Champion Diondre Overton Dead at 26


Former Clemson wide receiver Diondre Overton, who helped his team win two national championships, has died at the age of 26

In his senior year, he earned the Leather Helmet Award as the Most Valuable Player of the Clemson/Boston College game, the Clemson Tigers website detailed. Oliver was traveling home from a Caribbean vacation with his two daughters — Madita and Annik, whom he shared with wife Jessica Klepser — on January 4. Several of Overton’s former Clemson teammates posted emotional tributes to him on social media Saturday, expressing shock and pain at the news of his passing.

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