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Lafayette Daily AdvertiserBATON ROUGE — Three-star tight end and Class of 2025 recruit JD LaFleur has committed to LSU football, LaFleur announced on Tuesday.At 6-foot-6 and 220 pounds, LaFleur is the No. 339 recruit and No. 15 tight end in the nation, according to 247Sports Composite. He attends Sulphur High School and is the No. 13 prospect in Louisiana."Geaux Tigers!" LaFleur wrote on Twitter.LaFleur ...

Aug 1, 2023 Updated 26 min agoLSU coach Brian Kelly is taking a new approach to injury updates that resembles standard NFL protocols.According to the team, Kelly will report players as probable, questionable, doubtful or out during his Monday and Thursday news conferences throughout the season.Kelly will include the location of the injury (upper or lower body) or credit an illness for their absence, ...

Aug 1, 2023 Updated 42 min agoJD LaFleur, the son of former LSU All-American tight end David LaFleur, committed Tuesday to LSU, he announced on social media.JD is a three-star tight end in the 2025 class from Sulphur. He is listed at 6-foot-6 and 220 pounds as he enters his junior year of high school. JD also had interest from Florida, Texas A&M and others.David LaFleur was an All-American and first-team ...

When Kentucky football opens preseason practice Wednesday, Mark Stoops and his staff will have the luxury of already being able to pencil in most of the two-deep depth chart.Training camp always offers the opportunity for under-the-radar players to emerge, proving summer strides can translate into on-field production, but this is no longer a program where every position is truly open for competition.For ...

Kansas State's offense grew stronger as the 2023 season wore on, in large part because of improvement from a new offensive line, the development of quarterback Will Howard and the emergence of Ben Sinnott as an all-conference caliber tight end.It also was the first year under new offensive coordinator Collin Klein.While the Wildcats were average overall, ranking sixth in the Big 12 in scoring with ...

LAWRENCE — Kansas football opened the month of August on Tuesday with the start of fall camp, but did so without redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Joe Krause.Jayhawks head coach Lance Leipold said Krause has been suspended from the team. A KU Athletics spokesperson added that Krause has been suspended from the university, as well. And it all comes after Krause was arrested in July and charged with ...

LAWRENCE — The second season of the Lance Leipold era for Kansas football saw the Jayhawks reach the program’s first bowl game in more than a decade.Leipold, now about to enter his third season as Kansas’ head coach, is in the midst of a turnaround in Lawrence that’s surprised many. The Jayhawks did more in 2022 than just build off of a promising end to the 2021 campaign. And now, it’s just a matter ...

LAWRENCE — As the beginning of the 2023 college football season continues to draw closer, players are going to see their names pop up on preseason watch lists for various awards.Kansas football is coming off a year in 2022 in which it went 6-7 overall with an appearance in the Liberty Bowl. It’s primed, in the third year of head coach Lance Leipold’s tenure in Lawrence, to potentially take another ...

Another day, another set of preseason awards for James Madison — and this time a multitude of players received an honor on Tuesday.Defensive lineman James Carpenter was named to the Outland Trophy, the best interior lineman in college football, and Bronko Nagurski Trophy, the best defensive player, watch lists.Offensive lineman Nick Kidwell, a preseason first team All-Sun Belt selection, joined Carpenter ...

JACKSONVILLE — With Jacksonville State among the 14 FBS teams who will play in a Week 0 game, the Gamecocks are already getting live reps in pads.After a mostly encouraging practice on Monday, coach Rich Rodriguez was visibly upset with the team after Tuesday’s practice as they wore pads for the first time during preseason camp.Notes and quotes from Monday and Tuesday's practices—Transfer receiver ...