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Clifford Taylor IV

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Clifford Taylor IV
Career history
College
Bowl games
High schoolOlympic
(Charlotte, North Carolina)
Personal information
Born:April 5, 1999
Raleigh, North Carolina
Height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Weight244 lb (111 kg)

Clifford Taylor IV is an American social media personality and former American football tight end for the Florida Gators.

Early life and high school[edit]

Taylor was born in Raleigh, North Carolina but grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended Olympic High School, where he played basketball.[1] Over the course of his high school career, He average 18.5 points, 9.6 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game. He scored a career high 34 points his junior year. He would finish his high school career a two-time all conference player, an all state player his senior year and instead of pursuing college basketball would go on to attend the University of Florida as a student. [2]

College career[edit]

Before he joined the team, Taylor was a student at the University of Florida who enrolled in August of 2017. As a freshman, he was interested in walking on to the basketball team, so he reached out to then-assistant coach Dusty May to find out he could join the team. Before anything came to fruition, May left UF to become Florida Atlantic’s head coach. Taylor’s plans fell through. To keep himself active, he spent the year playing rec-league basketball when possible. The next year, his roommates needed someone for a spot on their intramural flag football team. Taylor loved watching football; he never considered playing. But, he took their offer. Without knowing, the boy who grew up watching Tim Tebow roll through the college football landscape would be on his way to joining the very team he idolized. “Once he's hooked on one certain thing, you're really like not gonna get in his way,” Noah Perets, a 21-year-old UF senior studying marketing, and Taylor’s friend said. “You don't just walk onto an SEC football team unless you're Clifford Taylor."

After two years on campus, he tried out for the football team and made it as a walk-on going into the 2019 season. He didn’t appear in a game his first season, but he has bulked up significantly. The once 6-foot-5 player weighed 190 pounds as a college sophomore bulked up to 240 pounds after one offseason with the program.[3][4] As a senior, Taylor became a special teams reserve while still playing tight end under new tight end coach Tim Brewster.[5] On December 12, Taylor made national headlines during his senior day when he wrote a special tribute on his game sleeves by writing "11 KJ" to honor Florida Gators men's basketball player Keyontae Johnson who collapsed earlier that day during a game against Florida State.[6]

Social media stardom[edit]

Around the team, Taylor is known as "TikTok". With over 100,000 followers on Instagram and more than 300,000 followers on TikTok. [7][8] His success on those platforms, where he frequently blends his sense of humor with life as a college football player, comes from a lifetime of expressing himself. He has received offers to work as an ambassador once his football career comes to an end. Taylor said he gets most of his ideas after practice. He said he treats TikTok like a competition, and when inspiration rears its way in his head, he always wants to produce the video before someone else does. Some videos take five minutes to make, but he said it’s not rare to have one take 20 minutes to write, film, edit and post. In an interview with The Alligator, he said “In this era, social media is almost essential to one's life, and I think being able to have a relatively good platform to share my fun, goofy side is truly a blessing,” Taylor said. “I never in a million years thought I’d be what people call TikTok famous.”

References[edit]

  1. Sports, Hudl (March 5, 2017). "NC All-State Player, Clifford Taylor IV Highlights". Hudl. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  2. [hhttps://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/high-school/article57441658.html "Taylor drops career best 34 points"]. Charlotte Observer. Charlotte Observer. January 29, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  3. "Clifford Taylor IV - The Walk-On Story". The Alligator. October 11, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  4. "Interesting story with potential new walk-on". Inside the Gators. June 18, 2019. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  5. "Clifford Taylor IV - USA Today". USA Today. May 19, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  6. "Clifford Taylor IV honors Johnson". ESPN. December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  7. "Clifford Taylor IV (@clifford)- TikTok". TikTok. December 11, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  8. "Clifford Taylor IV @cliffordtayloriv". Instagram. November 18, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2020.

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