Laravel 5 data into view

at the moment in my controller I am doing the following

$clients = Client::lists('clientName');
dd($clients);

The above outputs an array as expected

Collection {#182 ▼
  #items: array:3 [▼
    0 => "John Dandy"
    1 => "Jane Doe"
    2 => "Nicholas"
  ]
}

So I continue to pass this data to my view

return View::make('projects.create', compact('clients'));

So I know clients contains data as confirmed by the dd dump. However, in my view, if I do

{!! $clients !!}

I get the error

FatalErrorException in 887e98b93946af76e5541ac7ae310735 line 49: syntax error, unexpected 'null' (T_STRING)

Why would this be happening?

Thanks

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