LSU FOOTBALL News & Notes: Fall camp practice No.11

[JeffersonPowell]

We got a little bit of relief from the heat today. I think it was like 87 degrees when we made it to the practice field. Our media availability today was kind of limited. We weren't allowed out onto the field until after around 10:45. I think maybe we might have seen 35 minutes of practice if we were lucky by the time, it was all said and done. But I won't complain because I've been pretty surprised with the level of access that LSU head coach Brian Kelly has given to the media during fall camp. I wasn't covering the team during fall camp of last year so I'm not sure if this is the norm or not, but I sure hope so. Because it's so much better than what I've been used to covering other teams/coaches.

This is probably the most access I've had since my years covering David Bailiff at Rice. Talk about some great access, but that's a different story.

Some things to note.

As mentioned in a separate thread, LSU head coach Brian Kelly said Denver Harris was working on some "personal matters" and that if he gets things taken care of, he could be back with the team as early as this weekend.

Maason Smith was a little nicked up again today, I missed the OL vs DL drills today because I was watching the offense go 7-on-7 with the defense. So not sure how much he was out there but he was seen walking gingerly after one of his reps. Head coach Brian Kelly addressed it in his media availability but didn't seem too worried about it. "He's been banged up a little bit, but nothing we're overly concerned with, nothing structural or anything like that," Kelly said during his media availability following Wednesday's practice.

Cornerbacks again today were Duce Chestnutt and Zy Alexander working with the first team. Latterance Welch and Ashton Stamps with the second team.

There were a lot of three safety looks from the defense similar to yesterday's two-minute drill. Sage Ryan, Major Burns and Andre Sam are the three on the field together.

Sage Ryan has been getting reps playing both nickel and CB.

Here are the News and Notes from a limited practice availability today.

News & Notes

• When we walked outside the defensive line was off to the side working out individually while the team was working on punt drills. Looked like they had the returners working with scout team vs the punting unit.
• Aaron Anderson fielded the first punt as we walked up, he took the majority of the reps at punt return. Kyle Parker also had a decent number or reps, the only other guy I saw fielding punts outside of those two was Gregory Clayton JR. I think at this point it's Aaron Anderson's job to lose and Kelly pretty much talked as if he was going to be their man at punt return. "Aaron Anderson is about as comfortable of a punt returner as I've seen," Kelly said. "We've got some work to do on kickoff return but he's going to be back there too, we'll see where that goes."
• I did see Kyle Parker drop a punt that rolled straight toward the coverage team. Would have been a muff and turnover in live game most likely.
• Punt team moved the ball up to the 50, trying to pin the ball deep. First punt was a fair catch by Gregory Clayton JR.
• Second punt was a touchback.
• Switching drills, QB's and pass catchers running routes against air. Coaches calling out plays before each drill.
• Jayden Daniels completed a pass to Kaleb Jackson out of the backfield.
• Nussmeier completed a pass to Trey Holly out of the backfield.
• Rickie Collins completes one to John Emery JR out of the back field.
• Jayden Daniels hit Malik Nabers on a five yard inside crossing route.
• Nussmeier hit Chris Hilton JR on an out route going toward the left sideline for about five yards.
• Rickie Collins his Khai Prean on a five yard out route towards the right sideline.
• Mac Markway short three yard out route to the right sideline from Jayden Daniels, pass was a little high, but he reached up and got it.
• Nussmeier completed a corner route to K. Pimpton toward the right sideline that would have been good for 20-plus yards.
• There's been a lot of motion/shifting in the drill and one of the coaches took exception to the lack of urgency during the shift. Getting on to everyone including the quarterback saying anytime there's a shift or motion there needs to be urgency.
• Went to the five and five drill again with five QB's throwing at the same time to five different pass catchers. Looked like they were down an arm today, one of the coaches was throwing the fifth ball. Looks like walk on QB Matt O'Dowd wasn't out there.
• Quarterbacks were all on target from what I could see, I don't believe there were any dropped passes or incompletions.
• Drill change, offense doing a little seven-on-seven.
• Jayden Daniels hit Brian Thomas JR on a short crossing route across the middle.
• Aaron Anderson caught a short out route on the left sideline, Major Burns closed in fast, but Anderson carved him up, made a move to the right to get up the field.
• Nussmeier crossing route across the middle to Brian Thomas JR, he did make the catch, but he bobbled it a little bit. Probably would have been lit up in live action.
• Nussmeier nice crossing route to Malik Nabers, about a 20-yard gain. Ashton Stamps was in coverage. Very nice throw by Nussmeier, really had some zest on it.
• Nussmeier nice tight throw to Trey Holly on the right sideline out of the backfield.
• Mac Markway caught a comeback from Nussmeier good for about five yards.
• Chris Hilton JR reeled in a short out route, looks like he would have evaded the first defender and made a move up field to get more yardage but they're not doing full contact, so they stopped it short.
• Jayden Daniels threw a nice jump ball to Malik Nabers in the corner of the endzone, went up and got it. I believe Duce Chestnutt was in coverage.
• Daniels threw John Emery JR a dart on a check down, Emery stuck it and turned up field.
• Jayden Daniels fires a 10-yard slant complete to Aaron Anderson over the middle for a touchdown.
• Daniels threaded one to the back of the endzone to Kyren Lacey for another touchdown.
• Good coverage by the defense, Daniels had to scramble working through his progressions (no rush on the play) hit mason Taylor on a comeback towards the right sideline, would have been good for a couple of yards at most. Not sure he would have had the time to find him with a rush.
• Daniels completed a hitch route to the right sideline to Malik Nabers.
• Rickie Collins was a little off target on a crossing route to Mac Markway pass was thrown behind the intended receiver, incomplete.
• Rickie Collins nice corner route to Shelton Sampson JR to the back left pylon of the endzone, refs on the sideline signaled touchdown.
• Drill change. Offense went to the far field, ran a couple of plays against the scout team defense.
• Daniels hit Tre Bradford out of the backfield.
• Next play was a hand off to I believe Trey Holly who took it up the middle. Was hard to see from the vantage point we had.
• Offense did some 11-on-11 for the last couple minutes of practice, though they were still on the far field a pretty good distance from the media viewing area and there was a wall of players blocking our view, so it was challenging to see what was happening and we weren't allowed to walk over near that field.
• Jayden Daniels hit Aaron Anderson for a touchdown, extra point from Damian Ramos was good.
• Nussmeier hit Chris Hilton JR for a hitch route on the right sideline, then turned it up field and scored. Ramos' PAT good.

After that last play they continued to work in 11-on-11, but we were ushered back inside.

 

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