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Spring practice is underway for LSU football. This is the first real look we’re getting at the 2025 squad. For a handful of players, it’s their first practice with LSU. Early enrollees and transfer portal additions are making their LSU practice debut.
There’s a long way to go before toe meets leather in the fall, but these next few weeks will be the first real indicator of how LSU plans to use its freshman and transfer portal class in 2025.
LSU has a lot more continuity in 2025 than it did in 2024. Last spring, LSU was replacing coordinators on offense and defense while breaking in a new starting quarterback. Now, QB Garrett Nussmeier returns for his fifth year of college football. Offensive coordinator Joe Sloan and defensive coordinator Blake Baker both return, too.
In places where LSU lacks continuity, the Tigers made up for it with experience in the transfer portal. LSU loses a large chunk of its wide receiver and defensive end production, but LSU added several transfers with Power Four experience at those positions.
Here are five newcomers with breakout potential in the spring.
Offensive linemen Carius Curne
Per On3, Curne was a five-star recruit and No. 2 ranked interior offensive lineman in the 2025 recruiting class.
Don’t pay too much attention to that interior tag, though. Every lineman signed by LSU in 2025 was listed as an interior offensive lineman. That’s how the recruiting services saw those recruits, but it was safe to assume LSU saw one or two as a potential tackle. Curne will have a chance to make his mark on the edge.
Curne is a freak athlete and has the potential to play anywhere on the offensive line. His 33.5 inch arms are below average for NFL offensive tackles, but Will Campbell proved you don’t need long arms to be an elite tackle in the SEC. Curne has the tools to compete for a starting spot as a…
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Author : LSU Tigers Wire
Publish date : 2025-03-08 16:47:00
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