Poll: Are You In Favor Of LSU Adding Players With NFL Experience To The Roster?

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LSU's push to add players with NFL experience to its roster will come to a head on Thursday. That is when a court hearing is set in Baton Rouge, where the SEC and commissioner Greg Sankey will challenge a temporary restraining order (TRO) that is currently preventing the conference from enforcing its new rule against players who have signed professional contracts.

The timing is important for LSU. The Tigers have until Friday to finalize their 105-man roster, one day before they open the season against Clemson.

Former Ole Miss tight end Dae'Quan Wright, who spent this summer in NFL training camps with the Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns but never made a regular-season roster, has practiced with LSU over the past week.

Here is your chance to tell the world how you feel about this:

Are you in favor of LSU adding players with NFL experience to the roster?
No
56.7%
Yes
43.3%
Total votes: 7871Poll Closed
43 Comments
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Cwils22227 days
Need you to be more specific with the question.

You mean right now while it’s legal and everybody else has the opportunity to do it? (Yes)

Or the idea of it in principle? (No)
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This is the right answer. I don’t think players who have signed with NFL teams should be able to return to college.

But if they are able, they should come to LSU.
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This is the key to me.
The question worded to say “with NFL experience” HARDLY describes the two players we are trying to sign on.
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Sailor Sam7 days
You need to reword the question. Participating in an NFL training camp doesn't mean you have NFL experience. It's nothing more than a tryout.
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Chicken7 days
All that matters is what the SEC deems as "NFL experience"...
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JackieSonnier7 days
So mr chicken what do you think? Should kiffin see this through till the end?
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Brlaf775 days
Nope - the courts are telling the SEC what matters !
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TexHoss7 days
Undrafted 2022 players: yes. Everyone else: no.
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NotaStarGazer7 days
I like some others did not like the wording of the ?. IMO, the proper question should have been..."Are you in favor of LSU adding players from the 2022 class due to them not being informed about their options related to 5 for 5?" NFL experience implies including veteran players.
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I wish there were an option for: dom't care. Spot the ball.
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Pass. Move on. Why flirt with disaster? Game week and these distractions before an opening game is not a good thing.
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Javi0077 days
Let's only allow amateurs to play and we can all gather on Saturdays to watch the marching band, or are they being paid to play too?
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sulltiger5 days
They are all pros and employees
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Geaux Guy6 days
Updating my resume…. I never knew I was an ex MLB player with MLB experience. Did a tryout with the Detroit Tigers back in 1990.
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Higgysmalls6 days
We talking about 2 players and this is a one time issue. People are stupid. People act like every year this is going to be a problem
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SOL27 days
I'm not in favor of adding NFL players that are actually on a 53 man NFL roster.
But, I am ok with adding the 5th year players that never made a roster or practice squad. Just because you tried out for an NFL team does not make you an NFL player, IMO. Thousands do this and never suit up on Sundays. But , no, Burrow and Jefferson don't get to come back. However , Wright does because he is in BR right now and not on a 53 man roster. Calling Wright an NFL player is a stretch. He's really not that good and is only a depth piece for the Tigers, maybe 3rd team.
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LaweezyTiger7 days
Yes! If Texas and others can do it then yes. Only under this year 5 for 5 rule. No reason we shouldn't when Chambliss is Ineligible under the 5 for 5 with his 6th year. All these teams doing it so we should be able to do it also.
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Barbellthor7 days
I am in favor of consistency in the rules that LSU is not singularly lambasted for doing just the same as other schools, and for an exception to be made for the class of '22, and fpr a consistent rule to be applied thereafter but not just because mean old LSU did it.
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Pig 24 days
The players DO NOT have professional experience any more than the 8 5th year players that are playing on Tennessee ( executive director of SECs school) they are the same as Ole Miss quarterback of which no one’s seems upset about. Let’s just play ball and quit being such Hypocrites!!! GO TIGERS
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F1y0n7h3W4LL4 days
Just one more step in the division of professional an amateur sports.

This and NIL has taken the innocence (if there was any) away from college sports.

Shall we pay the 10 year old Little Leager a half million for his commitment to a major university?
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LsuNav6 days
I don’t agree with this in principle, but if it becomes legal, then, of course we have to do it. Is this something that a court system is going to spend a great deal of time on? If athletes get five years of eligibility here after why wouldn’t they just stay in college? They may be able to buy enough sandisk and other stock to become rich.
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Pig 26 days
None of the players are NFL players! They did not get drafted they tried out for a team but did not make 53 man roster!! The NCAA dropped the ball on them in the 5 for 5. These players should have been given the option to play the 5th year eligibility or choose nfl. If they did that we wouldn’t be having the discussion
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Spankum6 days
It really doesn’t matter….either everyone gets to do it or no one gets to do it so there is no competitive advantage. Seems like an unnecessary distraction at this point.
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TwoDatBait6 days
This year should be the only exception, as the eligibility rules were changed after these players went to the draft. They would have stayed had they known they would have another year.
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lsucoonass6 days
Sure why not! Everyone gets to do it
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BigDaddy51516 days
It is lost on me how badly LSU is framing up this issue. We should be saying clearly and loudly "these kids did not play in the NFL they pursued it only." There is large difference between pursuing
and achieving.

Hell when I was young I pursued Pamela Anderson or thought about it...
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