re: Shea: LSU's Midseason Freshmen Tracker

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Kyren has drop issues but he does a lot of the other things a WR needs to do really well. That is what is keeping him playing. He runs nice routes and understands the offense and what he needs to do. He also hustles and he is probably the best blocker at the WR position downfield

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Yeah, Carter Bryant did a Missouri film breakdown and focused on some of the little things that Lacy does really, really well. He’s super physical and is the best WR blocker not just downfield like you mentioned, but around the line in the running game. He has helped spring a ton of big plays.

And he does have problems with drops, no denying that. But he catches just enough that they have to respect him. And since he runs such good routes and gets open, with the route combos Denbrock is dialing up, just Lacy’s presence helps get Malik and BTJ in man-to-man where Jayden hits them for long plays down the field.

None of those freshmen are so much more dynamic than Lacy to make up for what he does. In this particular offense at this particular time of their development. I’m not saying they won’t all go on to have better LSU careers than Lacy, but what he does right now is better for the 2023 offense than what they’re currently capable of.

That said, I would really love to see all of them get some garbage time reps. If only our defense was good enough to create garbage time reps. And maybe a handful of meaningful reps for plays designed to take advantage of their skill sets. But when our offense is this historically great and we’re really only throwing to Malik, BTJ, and Taylor now that he’s back healthy, with maybe a few targets a game to Lacy/Hilton, I don’t think it makes much sense to have the young guys out there for multiple snaps in a close game.

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“bUt KeLlY dOeSnT pLaY tHe FrEsHmAn EnOuGh” screams the rant

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All this chart tracks is whether they played in a game or not.
It doesn't track snap count.

True, but a majority of that list has had significant snaps. I think that’s the point in reference to the delusion that Kelly doesn’t play freshmen.

Most of the DBs playing are purely special teams. Let’s not act like they are getting significant playing time on defense.

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I had to delete twitter because the Israel stuff was taking too much of my time.

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I decided to make myself even more low information so I could throw out even more uninformed opinions

Ignore someone trying so hard.

For our offense to keep humming next year, Nuss is going to need to emulate Burrow's early summer of 10,000 catches . . .

Would be interesting to see the rest of the SEC freshman in same format.

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you’re so mad

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No, he’s just like that. Must be a fun guy to hangout with.

Thanks for all the posts here and on the RB, one stop shop for info.