2020 Dline vs 2019 dline

The point is that our chances of landing Sop are much higher than getting Moore, Pickering, and Young. I mean besides we aren’t gonna be struggling to make room in this class. It should filll out nicely.

LSU is not at the point in which we can make use of 25 scholarships on high quality prospects. Taking the two Sopshers costs us one scholarship that we would have given to a Terrance Alexander, or a hard working walk on. Big deal.

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You can’t leave gaps in recruiting like this.

We’ve recruited 5 DEs the last 3 years

4 of them were 3*s

We can’t just rely on freshmen in 2020 and I dont see any studs so far from the last 3 classes at DE

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100% agree with you...I'm surprised LSU fans have forgotten that Les did this on the lines, as well...we're lacking bigly in the SDE and OT departments.

No question so far O has come up short recruiting the position we all thought would be his bread and butter. Some of that is because LA didn’t have many DL in a class and some have been misses. The 4 biggest that come to mind are Isaiah Buggs, Raekwon Davis, Marvin Wilson and Phidarian Mathis. This is an entirely different defense with those 4 on the team right now. The good news is Ika is without a doubt a future bright spot along with Shelvin and we return a veteran battle tested d-line for next year. Lawrence and Fehoko should have the best year of their careers and there is solid depth guys behind to rotate in like Glen Logan, Neil Farrel and Davin Cotton. The 2020 class along with hopefully Sophser and someone like Byron Young will replinesh the loss of Lawrence, Fehoko and Logan after the season. I like where LSU is heading and I think we are going to see the rewards sooner rather than later.

As long as we sign 1 more CB to close I'm fine with whatever linemen they want although I still think it's a mistake to take Rodney if they have to to get Ish, if we end up with Ish and didnt burn a scholly a Rodney, then that's a big time win. Pickering seems like a ridiculous long shot and Young seems a little more likely based on recent events.

Alabama losing everyone should be an easy recruiting pitch for us to Ish, Young, Pickering, etc...

I dont think we turn down any one of those 3, including Charles Moore too. But in all honesty we dont NEED 3 more defensive linemen this class from a numbers standpoint because the 2020 class is strong and we already have a ton of defensive linemen. It'd be a bit silly to have like 14-15 defensive linemen on scholarship.

If LSU and Oregon ore the only two offering, then take Rodney’s scholarship and move it to next year like Alabama is doing. That is smart for more reasons than one.

Also, Orgeron probably isn’t willin. To hedge his bets on McKinley Jackson or any other recruit for 2020 when we are taking about the last 5-6 in Jan 2019.

Take Ishmael only, unless you get Pickering, young or the other miss. Guy.



Ishmael has not played this very well at all.

Our three cornerbacks we signed, everybody knows what stingley is, and flott and Ray has been given very high praise (plus look at their offer list, screw what rankings say). We will be fine there
With Lawrence and fehoko coming back, DL will be solid next year, if shelvin and Livingston continue to grind and become contributors, our line will be ridiculous.

The only reason I’m saying forget ish is because next year we are in the running for most of the top DT in the country. We all know coach O can lock down recruits, especially if we are going to be thin at DL and the kids see immediate playing time.. we don’t need ish this year, especially wasting a scholly on his bro year

Also low on safeties unless Jacoby and potentially Dev Lee play there.

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Also low on safeties unless Jacoby and potentially Dev Lee play there.

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I guess it's becoming an issue. I think we should take 2-3 in the next class. It looks like Brooks is our safety in this class, and Hampton might still make it, too. I'll leave him off, though...here's what we got:

Delpit
Stevens
Harris
Joseph
Monroe
Brooks
Lewis

I do think Stevens stays at safety, and I think Lee starts at WR and then moves to OLB.

Speaking of OLB, I wouldn't mind seeing what Queen can do in Divinity's role. I think the Sam is where we all thought guys like Stevens, Brooks and Lee could play, too, if they bulked up enough.

We only lose delpit early to the draft, we’ll be fine, but we need a couple next year for sure.

Can’t wait to see how brooks does in camp, everything I’ve read he is the next Adams/delpit