BATON ROUGE — LSU football’s offensive line is considered one of the best in college football coming into the 2024 season.
With four starters returning from last season’s Joe Moore Award finalist group, headlined by left tackle Will Campbell and right tackle Emery Jones Jr., there’s been plenty of stability along the offensive front through fall camp.
During the Tigers’ 14th preseason practice Saturday morning, the line worked through a number of varying combinations with the first and second teams. That was by design as LSU head coach Brian Kelly informed reporters after practice that a “lower (gastrointestinal) bug” has been making it way around the position group.
Freshman center D.J. Chester, who has primarily been working with the first-team offensive line missed Saturday’s practice due to illness. Jones also was sent home early due to illness.
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“Emery was affected greatly from (the bug) today, he was in and out, he probably shouldn’t have been out there, but you couldn’t keep him from practice,” Kelly told reporters after practice Saturday. “That’s what he was suffering from. We sent him home early. I don’t know how (linebackers) Whit Weeks and West Weeks made it through practice, they had a similar bug. We’ve sprayed the offices, cleaned them down. But we’re fighting that right now with a number of guys.”
With Chester out, senior Garrett Dellinger, who has been getting reps at center in camp before Saturday, got the bulk of the work at center. Freshman Tyree Adams got work at left guard, where Dellinger usually is, with the first team offensive line.
Freshman Weston Davis, a former four-star prospect, spelled Jones…
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Publish date : 2024-08-17 19:25:21
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