re: 4 LA RBs with offers…

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Do we get them all and convert 1 to LB?

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Why would we do this when we could just recruit a LB? Just because devin white was a RB once upon a time doesn't mean it's a good team-building strategy to recruit RBs to play LB.


If you're a mid- or lower-tier P5 team for whom bluechip recruits are largely inaccessible and you have to hang your hat on scouting and long-term development (e.g. a program like wisconsin or iowa or iowa state), then maybe this would be a viable strategy on occasion, but when you're LSU and the #1 recruiting class in the country is a realistic goal, it makes way more sense to just recruit really good LBs.


In the past three classes (2024, 2023, 2022), we've signed a total of five 4* LBs and one 5* LB. We have two more 4* LBs committed in the 2025 class. Our LB recruiting has been well above the level at which you start realistically thinking about signing an extra RB to beef up the LB room.