McKay explains why there is no need to melt about the DL recruiting

“LSU is only losing one defensive lineman off last year’s team: Ed Alexander, who opted to turn pro. Of the six defensive linemen who made up the playing rotation the other five are all coming back. Additionally, LSU has four others who redshirted in 2018, giving Orgeron nine returning defensive linemen. Then there’s Evans, who at 6-3 and 305 pounds was all-district, all-area and all-state, has two cousins who combined to play two dozen years in the NFL, is a reigning state champion shot-putter and whose play at Haynesville this year was nothing short of dominant from what we’re told by friends up there. Then Orgeron went out to Salt Lake City and locked down one of the best nose guards in the country in Siaki “Apu” Ika, a 6-3, 380-pound behemoth who was dominant in the All-American Bowl in San Antonio last month; Ika, who is already on campus, needs to lose a good 40 pounds before he’ll be college-ready, but unlike with Sopsher nobody doubts his toughness and work ethic.“


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