Only three scholarship running backs on team - anyone know if they are looking to add?

To my understanding, with Holly suspended, LSU has only senior Josh Williams, sophomore Kaleb Jackson and freshman Caden Durham as scholarship running backs on their roster now. Am I missing one? How is this not a huge position of need in the portal? Running backs, particularly those who don’t rotate and get fewer touches, are prone to all sorts of injuries, even minor sprains that limit them.

Williams has been a solid back, thanks goodness he came back this year. But Williams would probably be average compared to most other SEC starting backs.

Jackson has beast potential, looking powerful on the few touches he got last year. I could see him starting or, at a minimum splitting reps and a lot more touches.

But it’s not that unusual to see to see running backs get nicked up in games, sometimes two in the same game. Then we would be left with Durham, a talented but unproven player at the SEC level, getting every carry with only walk-ons behind him.

Why all the chatter about defensive tackles, where we at least have a handful of scholarship players, and not running back.

The coaches know better than me, yada yada yada, I wont argue that point, of course they do. Frank Wilson is a smart guy, there has to be some concern with depth there.

I wonder if they know something we don’t know about the Holly case and that they expect him back. It’s not that Holly is some proven top tier sec back, but he would sure add depth and the potential to be a good SEC back.

Its very un-LSU like not to have a top 5 SEC running back. Maybe someone will blossom like Clyde Edwards did his senior year. Jackson is a good candidate for sure.

By LSU standards, we had a mostly average group of backs last year, but we did have decent depth.

I hope they have a plan. If we have even one running back with a camp injury, or legal problem, or grade problem, they will be in a bind.