Jadeveon Clowney, South Pointe alum, fires agent weeks before start of NFL regular season

Weeks before the start of the NFL regular season, Houston Texans defensive end and South Pointe High School alum Jadeveon Clowney fired his agent, as first reported by The NFL Network on Tuesday.

Clowney, who graduated from South Pointe in 2011 and left the University of South Carolina in 2014 for the NFL, reportedly fired his agent because he is “unhappy with the state of talks about his future,” per NBC Sports’s Darin Gantt. The move has reopened speculation about his future with the Texans.

The high school football legend from Rock Hill has yet to sign his one-year, multi-million dollar franchise tender. Until he does that, teams can continue to recruit him for the upcoming NFL season. Sports Illustrated, in fact, reported on Tuesday that Clowney met with some of the Miami Dolphins staff.

Clowney notched 47 tackles and three fumble recoveries in 2018. In his pro career, the former first overall pick has been selected for the Pro Bowl three times, and he’s spent all five of his years in the NFL in Houston.

This story was originally published August 27, 2019 at 6:50 PM.

Alex Zietlow

The Herald

Alex Zietlow writes about sports and the ways in which they intersect with life in York, Chester and Lancaster counties for The Herald, where he has been an editor and reporter since August 2019. Zietlow has won nine S.C. Press Association awards in his career, including First Place finishes in Feature Writing, Sports Enterprise Writing and Education Beat Reporting. He also received two Top-10 awards in the 2021 APSE writing contest and was nominated for the 2022 U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Rising Star award for his coverage of the Winthrop men’s basketball team.