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BATON ROUGE – Consider the holes within LSU football’s offense filled.
Led by junior quarterback Garrett Nussmeier, the Tigers unleashed a level of firepower during the National L Club Spring Game that was close to what fans witnessed the past couple of seasons with Jayden Daniels and company.
The offense scored on all three possessions with Nussmeier and first teamers in the game, building a 24-8 lead.
LSU’s backup defense made a run later, thanks to a few sacks and fourth-down stops with backup quarterbacks Rickie Collins and A.J. Swann out there to force the spring game to a tie, 34-34.
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With new co-offensive coordinators Joe Sloan and Cortez Hankton, the explosiveness hasn’t left LSU’s offense.
On the opening drive, Nussmeier stepped up in the pocket and delivered a 45-yard strike to Zavion Thomas for the game’s first score. Two drives later, he found a wide-open Kyren Lacy for a 59-yard touchdown down the visiting sideline.
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Nussmeier finished the spring game 7-for-7 for 187 yards and two TDs. Thomas had two grabs for 52 yards and Aaron Anderson added two receptions for 15 yards.
“What we’ve been striving for is controlling the line of scrimmage, running the football, and that will set up the explosiveness in this offense. It’s not going to be Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, Brian Thomas, it’s going to have a different look to the explosiveness,” LSU football coach Brian Kelly said following the spring game.
“But you can still be explosive, and it starts at the line of scrimmage.”
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Publish date : 2024-04-13 21:13:19
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