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Seattle Times: Former LSU Tiger Jazz Ferguson competing for Seahawks roster spot
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:48 am
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:48 am
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“Coming from LSU, he thought he was this huge fish in a small pond. We had to knock him down a few pegs,” Leggett Pugh said in a phone interview this week. “He was cocky, and he only wanted to do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
“He was,” she added sharply, “my least favorite person on the team — out of 115 players.” Ferguson has acknowledged that a “dark cloud” hung over him when he arrived at Northwestern State.
A one-time top-100 national recruit, he had been suspended as a sophomore at LSU for failing two drug tests, flunked out of school and was forced to drop down to the only program willing to take a chance on him, in the lower-level FCS, all while paying his own tuition as a walk-on scout-team player in 2017.
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Ferguson has called his time in Natchitoches life-changing.
“They taught me different things,” he said. “It wasn’t like LSU, where you get everything taken care of (for you) all the time. I wasn’t on scholarship (at Northwestern State), so I had to work and pay for my semester in order to be in school — just like another student, really. So it was a humbling experience and made me grow up.”
In parts of two seasons at LSU, he appeared in 11 games, posting just two catches (both against Missouri in 2016). He finally broke out for Northwestern State last fall, ranking among the FCS leaders with 66 catches for 1,117 yards and 13 touchdowns in 11 games.
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At Seahawks rookie minicamp in May, coach Pete Carroll called out Ferguson publicly for his weight, and Ferguson said he pretty quickly shed 12 pounds while working out in the Houston heat earlier this summer. He reported back to Seattle to start training camp listed at 6 feet, 5 inches and 228 pounds.
“He got the message,” Carroll said.
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Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:50 am to LSU>USC
Glad to see he’s turning things around.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:52 am to LSU>USC
quote:Yet people think players should be paid
“It wasn’t like LSU, where you get everything taken care of (for you) all the time. I wasn’t on scholarship (at Northwestern State)
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:52 am to LSU>USC
Good for him. He had the physical tools. He was always coddled though until life hit him in the face hard. I hope he gets his shite together
This post was edited on 8/8/19 at 8:52 am
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:55 am to CaptainPanic
Yes, they should be paid.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:06 am to LSU>USC
I wish him luck. We never got to see much of those Jazz hands here at LSU.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:12 am to LSU>USC
Hope that he makes it. Good read.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:15 am to nitwit
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Yes, they should be paid.
They do get paid. They get free school.
You think they should get a free education, fed like kings and still get a pay check?
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:29 am to LSU>USC
IIRC he was on the field for the first play of his college career ......
Posted on 8/8/19 at 10:18 am to CaptainPanic
They should get paid. They bring the school millions of dollars and they use their likeness. They arent allowed to have a job like other students. Even though everything is taken care of..they should still get paid
Posted on 8/8/19 at 10:46 am to Kajuntiger86
quote:They get paid enough already. I'd be fine with them making some type of profit off of jersey sales with their names on it. However, they don't bring millions of dollars into the school. They benefit from being surrounded by a top tier brand.
They arent allowed to have a job like other students. Even though everything is taken care of..they should still get paid
Do you really think that if a 5-star athlete went to a bottom tier school that he would "bring the school millions of dollars"? Not a chance.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 12:45 pm to LSU>USC
That's awesome. Sucks it did not work out here for him, I remember when he came in with Drake Davis and Stephen Sullivan everyone was losing their minds with the thought of Cam Cameron unleashing these giants on unsuspecting DBs.
My how the times change.
My how the times change.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 1:00 pm to Kajuntiger86
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They bring the school millions of dollars and they use their likeness.
no they don't, big time college football is a huge money generating machine, names change every couple of years, the machine keeps on motoring
Posted on 8/8/19 at 1:44 pm to LSU>USC
quote:is this accurate?
A one-time top-100 national recruit
Posted on 8/8/19 at 2:05 pm to clamdip
247 had him at #347
Posted on 8/8/19 at 2:05 pm to CaptainPanic
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“It wasn’t like LSU, where you get everything taken care of (for you) all the time. I wasn’t on scholarship (at Northwestern State)
Yet people think players should be paid
this
This post was edited on 8/8/19 at 2:06 pm
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