Elite four-star inside linebacker Maninoa Tufono from Honolulu, HI announced his top five schools on Wednesday and included LSU in the group.

His top schools are UCLA, Washington, LSU, Texas, and USC.

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Tufono, a 6-3, 225-pound prospect, is rated the No. 5 inside linebacker in the country for the class of 2019, according to 247Sports and Rivals.

He recently visited Baton Rouge in June and described his trip and meeting with Ed Orgeron and Dave Aranda as "eye-opening."

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For more info on Tufono, visit his profile page on our Recruiting Tracker.

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TigerIT•100 months

Samoan inside linebacker? Do want.

takemking•100 months

Check your geography. Not Samoan...Hawaiian....they are literally thousands of miles from each other. Still a great get.

luciouslou•100 months

come on down, there aint much difference between pinapple chicken and chicken fricassee

Deltatiger•100 months

anybody else notice that his tweet about LSU was sent from Alabama?

Vastmind•100 months

I hope we load up on Samoans

GeologyGrad88•100 months

Ironically, this is my favorite Girl Scout cookie. Could it be???

BayouBengal99•100 months

Man if we can get this dude or N Dean that would be a sick LB haul. We just need to land 2 more top 20 DLman and a top 15 OT to go along with them. This ending could be great for LSU!!!

VooDude•100 months

Ucla lock. Why wouldn’t you go there?

DlineU•100 months

Liberal country and it's expensive to live.

DlineU•100 months

Liberal country and it's expensive to live.

tbabino•100 months

trojan lock

LSU FSU Grad•100 months

If by Trojan you mean Huskie, then yes.

Spankum•100 months

Wow...O is really getting the attention of these future Tigers!