Sports Center - Clyde Edwards-Helaire

CEH is a class act that will be missed. Excited to see him put up some sick numbers with KC offense.

What an awesome year he’s had. To play a key role In the GOAT CFB season/team. Had multiple highlights in the biggest game (Bama) of the season. That 3rd and 7 was the biggest conversion on the season. And after all that’s said and done. He’s the 1st RB selected overall in the 1st rnd to the Kansas City Chiefs. Who I’m sure are favored to repeat as SB champs.

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Mentioning Darrel Willams and Clyde in the same sentence in blasphemy

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And just plain ole stupid

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CEH is a mystery. He was here for two years, and didn’t do much. His freshman year he was behind Guice, and he was a freshman, after all. But his second year he was behind Brossette, who is good enough to be borderline in the NFL, but he was the worst starter at LSU in more than a decade. If Clyde was any good he would surely have supplanted Brossette, right?

So Clyde limps into his junior year, and doesn’t show much in his first few games - 9 rushes for 45 against GSU; 15 for 91 against Texas showed a little; 13 for 51 against Northwestern; then 114 and 72 against Vandy and Utah State. Five games into 2019 and Clyde is looking okay, but not doing much to shake off the suspicion that he’s a caretaker back.

Then, wow! He breaks out against Florida, has a decent game against Mississippi State, then destroys Auburn. This was all prelude to reaching legend status against Bama. Like many LSU fans, I never saw that coming. He was fun to watch.

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Yep, thought the same thing. After he couldn't beat Brossette out, I figured Clyde was going to just be a change of pace back.

Going into the season he was forgotten, as everyone talked about the freshmen. Even 4 games in, we were all talking about how one of those freshmen were going to have to emerge as we go into the meat of the schedule.

Never seen anything quite like it in football- he was marginal in his production against the early cupcakes (and he got the carries, it's not like they sat him a lot), but looked and earned his All SEC honors against Auburn, Florida, Alabama.
It was more like a baseball player- some middle infielder gets hot and stays hot, and instead of platooning him as you expected, he's an MVP candidate.

And honestly he could have been our offensive MVP. By midseason it was clear you had to play the pass first and try to contain Burrow; but nobody, even LSU fans, expected Clyde to absolutely destroy people on the ground. Some teams, yes... but not the ones he did. And then that Arkansas game- Fournette and Guice could only dream of averaging 33 yds a carry vs a conference team. Any conference team. Hell, any team.

Can’t we attribute his first half vs second half of season production, at least in part, to defenses scheming run first at beginning of season then adjust to defend the pass, which opens up the run? Now he still had to be effective running, catching, and blocking, but opposing defense and O-line coming together might have contributed to the increasing production, which is exactly what you want to see.