Happy Father's Day, y'all. Been a busy weekend of LSU camps and CWS but here's a recap of the Saturday camp which hosted nearly 1,000 kids -- the biggest camp in LSU history, according to Frank Wilson.
-- Saturday's camp was an Elite Camp, meaning all position groups were participating except special teams. I bounced around to watch as much as possible but with 1,000 kids, it's impossible to see everyone.
-- Let's start with LSU commit Kolaj Cobbins, who worked out with the LBs outside a bit. He got one-on-one instruction from John Jancek off to the side then went inside to do 1-on-1s against the OL. Kolaj looked great! His game is tremendously better from a year ago today. He was only stopped on one rep and that was against West Monroe's Nate Green, a OL/TE prospect who has a few offers. Cobbins immediately asked for a second rep against Green and blew by him. I was impressed by Cobbins a few weeks ago when I saw him in Destrehan's spring game against Karr. Look for a big year from the four-star prospect.
-- Two other DL that stood out were 2024 Mississippi DE Caleb Moore, who was just at LSU in May for the spring game. He is really feeling the Tigers and it's only about 2-3 hours from where he lives in Mississippi. It sounds like he'll be ready to make a commitment relatively soon and the Tigers are in the mix against Mississippi State. I'll be lining up an interview with him soon to get more details. The other was Georgia 2026 DL Bryce Perry-Wright, who picked up an offer from LSU after his performance. To be fair, the only real OL competition these guys had to go against was Green and 2026 U-High prospect Lamar Brown, who returned to do OL drills after focusing on DL at last weekend's camp.
-- John Curtis receiver Michael Turner Jr. returned after the staff asked him to come do some specific drills for the coaches. They ended up putting through at least a solid 20-25 minute workout. Might have been longer. Rep after rep. Drill after drill. Brian Kelly, Cortez Hankton and Mike Denbrock were watching. He ran a 4.29 40 but it's a rolling 40, meaning it was truly 38-39 yards. I'm told that was equivalent to a low 4.4 or high 4.3 -- regardless, VERY FAST. Turner and his dad were then brought into BK's office by JR Belton and when he returned he had an offer in hand. I have interview coming from him. They know he's skinny only weighing about 155 pounds but he's impressed everywhere else and done everything they've asked of him. He's built like Devonta Smith. Similar frames. Turner wants to be at least 170-175 whenever he arrives to college for his freshman year. I've already put in a FutureCast in favor of the Tigers.
-- Official visitors JoJo Stone, CJ Jackson, Jayln Crawford and Ory Williams walked around camp for a bit with a staffer along with LSU commits Ahmad Breaux and Khayree Lee.
-- LSU has been knocking it out of the park with these OVs and 2025 QB Bryce Underwood. Sources told me things went as good as it could have and that Underwood and the family seemed to be enjoying themselves. Underwood is a kid who did not need to travel down here and camp for Joe Sloan, but he did. If you ask me, that's pretty telling on how much he's really considering LSU. The most chatter regarding him has been LSU and Michigan with maybe Ohio State still lurking around. The OVs have gone so smooth and impressive that JUCO TE Connor Gilbreath committed at 10 pm last night. I knew LSU was the favorite going in and that he would likely be the next commitment after his visits, but wasn't expecting him to pop late last night like that.
-- Kudos to Sloan for getting Underwood in and camping on Friday night along with the sheer number of young talented QBs he's gotten in over the two day stretch: Jared Curtis, Emile Picarella, Noah Grubbs, Jaden O'Neal, Quinn Murphy, Brady Smigiel, Carter Smith, Will Griffin and many many more.
-- Saturday's camp was an Elite Camp, meaning all position groups were participating except special teams. I bounced around to watch as much as possible but with 1,000 kids, it's impossible to see everyone.
-- Let's start with LSU commit Kolaj Cobbins, who worked out with the LBs outside a bit. He got one-on-one instruction from John Jancek off to the side then went inside to do 1-on-1s against the OL. Kolaj looked great! His game is tremendously better from a year ago today. He was only stopped on one rep and that was against West Monroe's Nate Green, a OL/TE prospect who has a few offers. Cobbins immediately asked for a second rep against Green and blew by him. I was impressed by Cobbins a few weeks ago when I saw him in Destrehan's spring game against Karr. Look for a big year from the four-star prospect.
-- Two other DL that stood out were 2024 Mississippi DE Caleb Moore, who was just at LSU in May for the spring game. He is really feeling the Tigers and it's only about 2-3 hours from where he lives in Mississippi. It sounds like he'll be ready to make a commitment relatively soon and the Tigers are in the mix against Mississippi State. I'll be lining up an interview with him soon to get more details. The other was Georgia 2026 DL Bryce Perry-Wright, who picked up an offer from LSU after his performance. To be fair, the only real OL competition these guys had to go against was Green and 2026 U-High prospect Lamar Brown, who returned to do OL drills after focusing on DL at last weekend's camp.
-- John Curtis receiver Michael Turner Jr. returned after the staff asked him to come do some specific drills for the coaches. They ended up putting through at least a solid 20-25 minute workout. Might have been longer. Rep after rep. Drill after drill. Brian Kelly, Cortez Hankton and Mike Denbrock were watching. He ran a 4.29 40 but it's a rolling 40, meaning it was truly 38-39 yards. I'm told that was equivalent to a low 4.4 or high 4.3 -- regardless, VERY FAST. Turner and his dad were then brought into BK's office by JR Belton and when he returned he had an offer in hand. I have interview coming from him. They know he's skinny only weighing about 155 pounds but he's impressed everywhere else and done everything they've asked of him. He's built like Devonta Smith. Similar frames. Turner wants to be at least 170-175 whenever he arrives to college for his freshman year. I've already put in a FutureCast in favor of the Tigers.
-- Official visitors JoJo Stone, CJ Jackson, Jayln Crawford and Ory Williams walked around camp for a bit with a staffer along with LSU commits Ahmad Breaux and Khayree Lee.
-- LSU has been knocking it out of the park with these OVs and 2025 QB Bryce Underwood. Sources told me things went as good as it could have and that Underwood and the family seemed to be enjoying themselves. Underwood is a kid who did not need to travel down here and camp for Joe Sloan, but he did. If you ask me, that's pretty telling on how much he's really considering LSU. The most chatter regarding him has been LSU and Michigan with maybe Ohio State still lurking around. The OVs have gone so smooth and impressive that JUCO TE Connor Gilbreath committed at 10 pm last night. I knew LSU was the favorite going in and that he would likely be the next commitment after his visits, but wasn't expecting him to pop late last night like that.
-- Kudos to Sloan for getting Underwood in and camping on Friday night along with the sheer number of young talented QBs he's gotten in over the two day stretch: Jared Curtis, Emile Picarella, Noah Grubbs, Jaden O'Neal, Quinn Murphy, Brady Smigiel, Carter Smith, Will Griffin and many many more.
