When you say "they aren't starters"

Yeah, I mean , nobody will start at dt for us out of the portal. We will need guys to step up at end though.

You don’t play the same guys every down in the sec anyway

Shand...maybe but with his size and apparent versatility, I think him/Lee are DT's.

That will be Guillory.

I'm glad we got these guys, for needed depth, but when people say "not a starter" I think it's pretty clear that they mean "not starter material", meaning these aren't guys you would want getting that type of playing time, no matter who else is in front of them.

Now, I don't know enough about these dudes to say if that's really true, but they've all been in college long enough to have gotten some significant experience, and yet haven't really produced much, statistically. But at least they aren't freshmen, with zero experience, and perhaps the coaches see something they can work with from a talent standpoint.

Riske literally could start tomorrow at the nose. He was one of the best 0’s in college football last year.

LSU offered and missed. Do you know how many DTs we missed on this year? All. Of. Them.

I’ve maintained that LSU needs to do what Georgia, Bama, OSU, Texas, Texas AM, etc do and hire a DT coach.

Get rid of Polian. He’s dead weight.

The fact that we are in such bad of shape at the position that we are taking Florida rejects is a bad spot. A school like LSU shouldn’t be this desperate for “depth.”

I sure hope they aren’t done at DT

I think they mean they weren’t starters or significant contributors in the PAC 12.
But we need depth and they fit the bill. Hopefully they can provide quality depth with some experience.
It was a down year in LA for HS DT, we had to get what we could from the portal.

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Because they may start at end

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Dashawn Womack says no they won’t

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You're right...That's what they are saying. That's my point. I doubt any Outland trophy hopefuls are gonna transfer to LSU this year on the chance they can unseat an All-SEC DT and an All-World talent that, if healthy, could be the most disruptive DT in the country. IMO, these are the "depth guys" we had to get and we need while working to add young HS talent to keep us elite at those positions. We seem to have fallen short in that regard this cycle. There's always that and the portal again next cycle.

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I understood your point that we aren't necessarily going to attract stars at the position, but defensive linemen can play in rotations where there are multiple guys getting starter reps at the same position. And I think people were hoping to get some guys who had a chance to be more impactful to that end, given how we struggled with lack of depth on the D-line this year. I mean, we got Wingo, who was coming off an All-SEC freshman year, despite the fact we had Smith and Roy as starters.