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CBS Sports: The 10 College Football Teams Hit Hardest By Early NFL Draft Entrees

by TD Staff Reporter

January 16, 201822 Comments

Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports

Tom Fornelli with CBS Sports included LSU in his list of 10 college football teams that were hit the hardest by early NFL Draft entrees. The Tigers were No. 2 on the list behind Florida State.

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Like Florida State, LSU is also dealing with the loss of six players. Derrius Guice is the headliner of those leaving early, but Arden Key will likely be a first-round pick as well. Then you have two of your top corners in Donte Jackson and Kevin Toliver leaving. Oh, and you have two of your starting offensive linemen in William Clapp and Toby Weathersby departing. That means you're losing 60 percent of your offensive line as K.J. Malone is a senior. In fact, of the 11 starters on LSU's offensive depth chart this season, only three players will be returning -- five were seniors and three more are leaving early.

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Malaysian Tiger

I do not see any of those as a big concern. LSU has players to step up!

Reply•71 months

voodooidotwo

This is one of the biggest reasons we have not won anything lately. The need to start talking this kids into returning. When you don’t have a sr class you don’t have much hope. If you are considered a rd 2 or worse comeback and give the tigers a championship

Reply•71 months

Bayoubengal205

Just pretend for a minute that you’re Arden Key. Could anybody aside from God alone talk you into turning down that kinda money? What about Derrius Guice with his dream to get his family out of the environment that his father got killed in. All he needs is money. I’m sure most of these guys are honorable men. And imo an honorable man is gonna take care of his family before he worries about a fan base.

71 months

tigerfan0082

I mean...we lost Etling (Sr.), how will we reproduce that production?!?

Reply•71 months

chinhoyang

Cheap shot

71 months

Datbayoubengal

Well statistically, he had the second best season for an LSU starting QB in the last 10 years. Unless the Old Folks home suddenly figured out how to coach a QB and run a modern offense, pray that we get anywhere close to that.

71 months

ByUselves

Having Tigerfan in your handle means you are a cheap shot artist these days.

71 months

Cracker

how many kids went early from stanford ?

Reply•71 months

bamagreycoat

Bama will surely miss Payne, Harrison, and Fitzpatrick. I can’t blame any NFL ready junior or redshirt sophomore for leaving school early though. I wish all the SEC players much success in their respective NFL careers.

Reply•71 months

Blind Zebras

All the annual defects leave and are productive. Yet, no hardware for LSU. Oh what a great time to be a Tiger

Reply•71 months

NWLAtiger55

We return 3 starters on the offensive line. Charles, Brumfield, and Ingram. Malone was hurt majority of the season. Weathersby was a solid player, but I don't think we see a drop off at the RT position with guys like Deculus, Traore, and Magee. Clapp is the only loss that hurts on the O line. Also, we aren't losing our top 2 corners. The best corner Greedy Williams is back along with guys like Fulton, Vincent, and Surtain once he commits. We aren't losing near as much as they think we are. Key, Guice, Malone, Weathersby, and Toliver all missed a good bit of time this past year. I hate losing them, but the guys stepping up in their place aren't slouches by any means.

Reply•71 months

NorthEndZone

Agreed. Other than a replacement for Guice, the players on the current roster and the incoming freshmen are potentially as good or better than the guys we are losing to the draft. They just need a little experience. Time to reload.

71 months

Lexman1

Absolutely right. And most of the young linemen started most of the season, so they have SEC big game experience! This is why you recruit well and play em early and often, to get the most out of them before they leave. Non issue.

71 months

Fightin Okra

We have no proven RBs. Guice was out but D Williams filled in for him. Williams gone too (senior). We lost a lot on offense

71 months

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justice

Id run as fast as possible to leave this sinking ship. good luck in the nfl

Reply•71 months

ByUselves

Thought it was a shrimp boat?

71 months

Jones