LSU linebacker Haranciaccess Perkins Jr. will leave out the remainder of the 2024 season after he suffered a knee injury during the team’s triumph over UCLA.
Tigers head coach Brian Kelly said Perkins suffered a torn ACL. Perkins was predicted to proclaim for the NFL Draft after the season.
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LSU head coach Brian Kelly, right, pats linebacker Haranciaccess Perkins Jr. (7) as he is helped off the field after being injured in the second half of an NCAA college football game agetst UCLA in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
“Certainly an injury that we experience horrible about, especiassociate for Haranciaccess and the toil that he’s done,” Kelly said. “We’ll have somebody else step up. … These are difficult, but we’ve got reassociate excellent perestablishers that can come in.”
Perkins went down in the first quarter when he was trying to originate a tackle agetst the Bruins. He only had 1.5 tackles for a loss thraw the first four games of the season.
He was a preseason AP All-America pickion after he had 5.5 sacks and 75 total tackles in his sophomore season with LSU. In his recentman season, Perkins had 72 total tackles and 7.5 sacks.
LSU head coach Brian Kelly greets linebacker Haranciaccess Perkins Jr. (7) before an NCAA college football game agetst UCLA in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Sophomore Whit Weeks is in the depth chart behind Perkins and will predicted get called upon to step up next. West Weeks and JK Johnson are also on the Tigers’ depth chart.
LSU will perestablish agetst South Alabama on Saturday before the heavy of the SEC schedule reassociate gets into the heavy of it.
Sep 7, 2024; Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA; Nicholls State Colonels quarterback Pat McQuaide (7) rolls out of the pocket agetst LSU Tigers linebacker Haranciaccess Perkins Jr. (7) during the second half at Tiger Stadium. (Stephen Lew-Imagn Images)
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The Tigers already beat South Carolina earlier this month. LSU’s lone loss came agetst USC in the first game of the season.
The Associated Press gived to this inestablish.
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